hot comb

¹ American  

noun

1. a comb or comblike appliance heated electrically and used to arrange or style the hair.

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hot-comb ² American  

[hot-kohm] / ˈhɒtˌkoʊm /

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange or style (the hair) with a hot comb.

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Etymology

Origin of hot comb

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

“Good hair” in our vernacular then meant it didn’t require a hot comb.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2022

She was running a hot comb through the hair of Chris Vera, who helped explain why.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2017

In one stall a West Texas matron in toreador pants, see-through blouse and perhaps the last bouffant hairdo in Western civilization teased the tip of her Hereford's tail with a hot comb.

From Time Magazine Archive

A wide-brimmed hat covered her black hair, which she had pressed straight with a hot comb off the stove that morning.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Then Vonetta burned her ears with the hot comb, and who had to rub Vaseline on burned ears and finish pulling the hot comb through Vonetta’s thick, thick head?

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia