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