Hairpin

Adjective

 * 1) Characterized by an abrupt or extreme bend; shaped like a hairpin.
 * Drive carefully. That road has a lot of hairpin turns.

Noun

 * 1) A pin or fastener for the hair.

Thesaurus
aberrancy, aberration, bend, bendy, bias, branching off, chevron, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitousness, corner, crankiness, crankled, crook, crooked, crookedness, curve, curvy, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flexuosity, flexuous, indirection, obliquity, pererration, rambling, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, staggered, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switchback, tack, turn, turning, twist, twisty, variation, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery, zigzaggy, zigzagways

Etymology
A compound of hair + pin. The adjective form recalls the tight bend characteristic of a hairpin.

Adjective

 * Greek: (1) διχαλωτή καρφίδα (dikhaloti karfida), (1,2) φουρκέτα (furketa)
 * Spanish: muy cerrado


 * Swedish: hårnåls-

Noun

 * Croatian:
 * Greek: φουρκέτα
 * Russian:


 * Spanish: horquilla ,
 * Swedish: