bad hair day
/bˈæd hˈɛɹ dˈeɪ/
phrasea day on which one feels unattractive, particularly due to one's hair not looking as well as it should
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1. It's like having a bad hair day or a good hair day.
2. I broke my first folding phone and in a particularly egregious case of a bad hair day, it's one of the only ones I've spent my own money on.
3. Basically, I'm having a bad hair day.
4. Think of this as a bad hair day release form.
5. All right, you can't sue Yale later if you had a bad hair day.
split end
/splˈɪt ˈɛnd/
nouna hair on the head that its tip has been divided into two parts because it is dry or in a poor condition
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1. For women, split ends can be a nuisance.
2. Excessive brushing can also cause split ends.
3. That's a split end.
4. That's a split end.
5. - Is that a split end?
cowlick
/ˈkaʊɫɪk/
nouna piece of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest and sticks out on the head
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1. - He didn't get two cowlicks.
2. Is it a cowlick? -
3. - Don't search cowlick, search swirl of hair.
4. The cowlick is kinda getting me right now.
5. but you kind of have a cowlick right here
curl
/ˈkɝɫ/
nouna piece or lock of hair that is curved
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1. Curl your eyelashes.
2. Curling the tailbone forward.
3. - Curling my hair for the concert.
4. Because girls have curls.
5. - Curls get the girls.
bedhead
/bˈɛdhɛd/
nounthe messy or tousled appearance of a person's hair after they have just woken up from sleep or after spending time in bed
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1. Along with the inevitability of waking up with some seriously kinked bedhead, you may also do damage to your hair.
2. In a post she shared on InStyle's Instagram account, a very different-looking Hathaway shared her bedhead look and wrote that she needed to, quote, "steal a coffee and splurge on a hairbrush."
3. So as you can tell, it is definitely morning time, because I have my crazy bedhead hair and my sleepy eyes.
4. And I also wanna talk about how cute this bedhead hair is!
5. Okay, I have really bad bedhead.
body
/ˈbɑdi/
noundenseness or fullness of the texture of someone's hair
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1. The computer system checks the rider's body movements about 100 times every second.
2. The body is subsequently taken away for a detailed examination that will establish the cause and time of the victim's death.
3. But they knew doctors could not heat a patient's body to a high temperature.
4. The penicillin helped the patient's body destroy harmful bacteria.
5. These are the border cells of your body, lining your organs and mucosa waiting to be infected.
bounce
/ˈbaʊns/
nounthickness and health of the hair
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1. And the ball bounces the same way.
2. The golf ball bounced to 28 feet.
3. These guys are just bouncing babies.
4. The dad bounce ♪
5. This pencil bounced out of here.
lock
/ˈɫɑk/
nouna piece of hair that lies on the head
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1. Doorsl locked!
2. Lock the door.
3. Yeah, yeah -♪ Lock the door -♪
4. So, lock your freezers.
5. Lock the bar.
down
/ˈdaʊn/
nounhair that is thin, soft, and short on someone's face or body
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1. Sit down with me on this bench, Jane.
2. The organic component of soil, called humus, is mostly made up of broken down lignin.
3. Maybe one person, maybe do a little lie down.
4. [ Grunts ] Lie down.
5. The sperm count goes down.
hairy
/ˈhɛɹi/
adjectivehaving a lot of hair
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1. So the vibe here is pretty hairy.
2. Now those lips were hairy.
3. My numbers look kind of hairy.
4. Hairy forearms, that's- - Hairy forearms is
5. Your pits are hairy.
tone
/ˈtoʊn/
nouna particular quality of a shade of color that differentiates it from another color
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1. Tone the face.
2. Arms behind you will tone your triceps.
3. His muscles perfectly toned.
4. Wall presses tone your shoulder and pectoral muscles.
5. Tone your triceps with dumbbell kickbacks.
part
/ˈpɑɹt/
nouna line on the head that is made when the hair is combed into two separate sections
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1. This is in large part, due to home equity being bequeathed from one generation to the next.
2. The first part of her trip was tough.
3. Life in Poland was tough during the latter part of the 19th century.
4. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
5. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
to part
/ˈpɑɹt/
verbto divide someone's hair in two parts with a comb creating a line on the scalp
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1. This is in large part, due to home equity being bequeathed from one generation to the next.
2. The first part of her trip was tough.
3. Life in Poland was tough during the latter part of the 19th century.
4. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
5. Pollen is moved from the male part of a flower to the female part of a flower, then fertilisation can happen causing fruit to grow.
to wear
/ˈwɛɹ/
verbto have a particular style of hair, beard, or mustache
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1. What color does a woman wear in this country when she marries, Mary?'
2. She wears white because she's happy.'
3. They are all wearing 3D glasses.
4. Wear a mask!
5. - That one was wearing a Lady Gaga costume.
to recede
/ɹɪˈsid/
verb(of a man's hair) to cease to grow and become bald from the front hairline
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1. The universe will recede from view.
2. It receded.
3. The glacier’s terminus has receded 3km since 1870.
4. The glaciers are receding at the rate of 20 to 30 meters a year.
5. Are your gums receding?
pate
/ˈpeɪt/
nounthe top of the head, especially of a bald person
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1. They add the pâté onto the meat in the middle of the sandwich.
2. - It is pate.
3. We got our butternut squash and salmon hand-chopped pate.
4. Next we need pate.
5. Liver pate?
tress
/ˈtɹɛs/
nouna long strand of a woman's hair, sometimes braided
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1. The prince climbed her tresses into the tower.
2. People place a lot of emotional weight on our tresses.
3. You’ve got voluminous tresses!
4. Some tress have easier root systems than others and the size of the tree makes a difference.
5. Don't stress your tresses!
strand
/ˈstɹænd/
nouna single slender thread of something such as a fiber, hair, etc.
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1. These enzymes build strands of DNA from nucleotides, the essential building blocks of nucleic acids.
2. Strands of bamboo on ballots smuggled in from Asia.
3. People were stranded.
4. An average head of hair contains only 100,000 strands.
5. Shiny strands imply good health and hygiene.
tendril
/tˈɛndɹəl/
nouna thin and curled piece of something, especially of hair
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1. We need more tendrils, though. -
2. Right now at the market, the pea tendrils are amazing.
3. Tendrils of fog rise, writhing and searching for something.
4. for various historical reasons, the Western musical tradition has spread its tendrils across pretty much the entire planet.
5. Tight tendrils For most people, perms are as distant a cultural memory as leg warmers and stocky shoulder pads.
tangle
/ˈtæŋɡəɫ/
nouna matted or twisted mass that is highly intertwined
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1. Tangled in this underbrush.
2. Likely, our space intruder would tangle the biggest planet in the system.
3. ♫ ♫ Hella split-ends, and my hair so tangled!
4. Rapunzely Tangled.
5. - Tangled.
wave
/ˈweɪv/
nouna loose curl or ringlet in hair
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1. Would the explosion knock its orbit towards earth, causing tidal waves and misery?
2. Another woman waved her hand.
3. The matador waves the cloth toward the bull.
4. Wave goodbye.
5. Wave goodbye.
wisp
/ˈwɪsp/
nouna small thin bunch of something, such as hair, grass, etc.
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1. For example, Yutyrannus, a tyrannosaur from China, had little wisps that grew from follicles in its skin.
2. These are really annoying, these little wispity wisps!
3. Which looked from afar, like a thin wisp of cloud.
4. This is going to set everything off, this one little wisp of hair.
5. Placing it on the foundation, he fed the young flame with wisps of dry grass and with the tiniest dry twigs.
thatch
/ˈθætʃ/
nounthe untidy and thick hair on someone's head
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1. Welcomes him to a pile of thatching?
2. This storm is expected to damage all thatched roof buildings.
3. Thatched roofs and small animals.
4. They built their villages on naturally defensible plateaus, constructing houses of thatch and mud while subsisting off farming, herding, and forestry.
5. Tambarans are built out of bamboo and thatched with palm leaves.
streak
/ˈstɹik/
nouna long thin line or mark on something that has a different color from the background
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1. We streak.
2. Five player kill streak.
3. The whole top of this is just got brown streaks.
4. The streak is over!
5. - Streak through the room.
shock
/ˈʃɑk/
nouna bushy mass of hair on someone's head
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1. His death shocked the conscience of our community, our country, the whole world.
2. The slaves and others reacted with shock and revulsion.
3. The news shocked the royal courts of Europe.
4. The story shocked the entire world.
5. Radio personality Rush Limbaugh's death from lung cancer has shocked the airwaves.
ringlet
/ɹˈɪŋɡlət/
nouna long strand of hair that hangs down in curls
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1. - They're little ringlet things.
2. She has a gorgeous mane of red ringlets that spill over her shoulders, a smattering of freckles across her face, and a honey-colored complexion that anyone would be envious of.
3. And you don't have to have super tight ringlets either.
4. You shouldn't have like ringlets coming around your face, because especially when you take pictures, that probably is going to make a shadow on your face.
5. It's not something to make ringlets.
mop
/ˈmɑp/
nouna mass of thick hair which is often untidy
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1. The Napoleonic army mopped the floor with them.
2. Mopping out!
3. We mop the biscuit.
4. My mother-in-law has two mops.
5. But mop no more my friends.
hairline
/ˈhɛɹˌɫaɪn/
nounthe edge of the forehead where the hair begins to grow
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1. The hairline is much lower than that photo.
2. My hairline is actually underneath and to the back.
3. John's hairline is almost at triangle.
4. Your hairline is wet.
5. His hairline is so far back.
dreadlock
/dɹˈɛdlɑːk/
nouna rope-like piece of hair formed by twisting or braiding hair, known to be worn by Rastafarians
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1. Here you've got dreadlocks.
2. Dreadlocks, I want dreadlocks.
3. Dreadlocks, I want dreadlocks.
4. He's got dreadlocks!
5. - Stephanie used to have dreadlocks.
to grey
/ˈɡɹeɪ/
verbto become or make something become more grey in color
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1. People usually get grey hair in their thirties or forties.'
2. Calm down Grey.
3. Grey: Everyone is gone.
4. His face was grey as ashes.
5. Is your hair greying too quickly?
to thin
/ˈθɪn/
verbto make something thinner or less dense
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1. The coffers are thin.
2. The margin is thin.
3. Other changes are thinning the ranks of securities analysts.
4. The culture of tomato sauce was thin.
5. Our blood is thin.
alopecia
/ɐloʊpˈiːʃə/
nouna medical condition characterized by hair loss or baldness, which can occur on the scalp or other parts of the body
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1. So, androgenetic alopecia is actually not an uncommon trait.
2. So I grew up with alopecia.
3. Alopecia areata is an autoimmune skin disease that can cause hair loss on your head as well as the rest of your body.
4. Alopecia is prevalent among both males and females of all ages.
5. This is called alopecia areata.
tuft
/ˈtəft/
nouna bunch of threads, hair, etc. that are growing together, joined at the base
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1. The female giraffe has tufts of hair on the top of her horns.
2. Just a few tufts of his thick winter coat remain.
3. Red squirrels have ear tufts.
4. Oh boy, I like your little hair tuft.
5. This hair tuft is so fancy.
forelock
/fˈɔːɹlɑːk/
nouna lock of hair that grows or hangs over the forehead, typically longer than the rest of the hair
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1. You can't expect them to continue to live in the same way as they did before, deferential to their betters, that is to say, tugging their forelocks before the aristocrats and just leaving all the decisions to the aristocrats.
2. Piebaldism For almost 90% percent of people who have it, a forelock of white hair along with a white patch of skin on their forehead might be the only present symptom.
3. When you cut his forelock.
4. This is called his forelock.
to head of hair
/hˈɛd ʌv hˈɛɹ/
phraseall the hair on a person's scalp, which can vary in thickness, length, color, and texture
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male pattern baldness
/mˈeɪl pˈætɚn bˈɔːldnəs/
nouna common genetic condition characterized by gradual hair loss in a specific pattern on the scalp, typically starting with a receding hairline and thinning on the crown
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