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What (who) is hairpin bend - definition
ACUTE CURVE (OFTEN ONE OF A SERIES) IN A ROAD, ESPECIALLY ON A STEEP INCLINE
Hairpin curve; Hairpin bends; Hairpin bend; Hairpin turns; Hairpin corner; Hairpin Turns
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![Shafer Trail Road in [[Canyonlands National Park]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/16 21 1551 canyonlands.jpg?width=200 "Shafer Trail Road in [[Canyonlands National Park]]")
![Grand Hotel Hairpin in [[Circuit de Monaco]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fairmont Hairpin Monaco IMG 1011.jpg?width=200 "Grand Hotel Hairpin in [[Circuit de Monaco]].")
![WRC]] car taking a hairpin turn during [[2007 Rallye Deutschland]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/François Duval - 2007 Rallye Deutschland.jpg?width=200 "WRC]] car taking a hairpin turn during [[2007 Rallye Deutschland]]")
![One of the most famous [[NASCAR]] tracks with hairpin turns was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Riverside Raceway.JPG?width=200 "One of the most famous [[NASCAR]] tracks with hairpin turns was the old [[Riverside International Raceway]] in [[Riverside, California]]")
![WA 129]] in [[Joseph Canyon]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SR 129.jpg?width=200 "WA 129]] in [[Joseph Canyon]]")
![[[Tribhuvan Highway]], Nepal](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tribhuvan highway.jpg?width=200 "[[Tribhuvan Highway]], Nepal")
hairpin bend
(hairpin bends)
A hairpin bend or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
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hairpin bend
¦ noun a sharp U-shaped bend in a road.
Hairpin turn
A hairpin turn (also hairpin bend or hairpin corner) is a bend in a road with a very acute inner angle, making it necessary for an oncoming vehicle to turn about 180° to continue on the road. It is named for its resemblance to a bent metal hairpin.
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Hairpin turn
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A hairpin turn (also hairpin bend or hairpin corner) is a bend in a road with a very acute inner angle, making it necessary for an oncoming vehicle to turn about 180° to continue on the road. It is named for its resemblance to a bent metal hairpin. Such turns in ramps and trails may be called switchbacks in American English, by analogy with switchback railways.
Examples of use of hairpin bend
1. But as we round the first hairpin bend at high speed, a siren wails.
2. No longer do the Tories perform relatively sedate U–turns; they are currently careering round one hairpin bend after another.
3. Residents on the narrow dipping lane, which has a sharp hairpin bend, have called for the road to be closed to through traffic.
4. To get a parking spot on a hairpin bend, where sharper gradients slow riders down for a better look, some families arrived last Monday.
5. Just before a hairpin bend, the 20–somethings saw the cows and steered to the left, inadvertently forcing off the road a pickup truck driven by a villager.