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Item In A Purse Crossword Clue

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noun

• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair

• the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds

• any of several tools for straightening fibers

• ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore

• the act of drawing a comb through hair

verb

• straighten with a comb

• search thoroughly

• smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb

40%9Purse ___: stealing a woman's purse
noun

• a small fragment

• obscene terms for female genitals

• (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment

• a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion

• the act of catching an object with the hands

verb

• to grasp hastily or eagerly

• to make grasping motions

• take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

39%5 Fashionable item
noun

• a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)

• a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse

• a small bag for carrying money

• a sum of money offered as a prize

verb

• contract one's lips into a rounded shape

• gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker

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