The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BEEHIVE
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More clues leading to the result BEEHIVE
- Arrangement of locks and buzzers
- A style that has the workers buzzing?
- Hebe variety planted in front of one’s busy workplace
- Workers’s home in High Barnet?
- Extremely blonde, what I have is a 1960s’ hairstyle
- Herd mostly restricts greeting for US gum
- Social gathering’s first to honour Alberich’s hairdo
- Where queen resides in style?
- Hairstyle that creates quite a buzz?
- Aussie’s to mind his manners, we hear, in place of industry
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The straight part
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What does BEEHIVE mean?
BEEHIVE noun- A 12- to 13-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
- An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.
- A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.
- Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- A particular style of hat.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life configuration with a rounded appearance.
- To fill (a place) with busy activity.