English

Noun

rubberband ‎(plural rubberbands)

1. Alternative form of rubber band
   • 1998, Natural Hair Care and Braiding (ISBN 1562533169), page 114:

     Once the hair is sewn onto the foundation, use the proper styling aids to blend all natural hair that is not in rubberbands into the commercial hair, if necessary.

   • 1999, Jennifer Overend Prior, ‎Janet A. Hale, Bats (ISBN 1576903761), page 39:

     Provide each child, or pair of children, with a shoebox (shoebox lid is not needed) and different sizes and thicknesses of rubberbands. The children are to stretch several different sizes of rubberbands around the entire shoebox's girth.

   • 2008, Susan E. Harris, Grooming To Win (ISBN 0470285125), page 203:

     Braiding with rubberbands is quicker than sewing in yarn or thread but it is not acceptable for high-level competition, and it will break off hairs and damage the mane.

Verb

rubberband ‎(third-person singular simple present rubberbands, present participle rubberbanding, simple past and past participle rubberbanded)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of rubber-band
   • 2001, Braiding: Easy Styles for Everyone (ISBN 0766837645), page 71:

     Rubberband them together.

   • 2013, Phil Rickman, The Fabric of Sin (ISBN 1623652839):

     Long red-gray hair in a rubberbanded ponytail, […]

   • 2014, Steve Hullfish, Avid Uncut (ISBN 1134070632):

     Editors are very set in their ways of whether they prefer doing level changes within a clip by rubberbanding or by breaking the clip into pieces and adjusting the levels of each piece.