French braid
/fɹˈɛntʃ bɹˈeɪd/
nouna type of hairdo in which three strands of hair are twisted from the crown of the head to the nape of the neck
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1. French braid remaining front section.
2. - This is just a really bad French braid.
3. This definitely is a French braid.
4. - That's not a French braid babe.
5. - Can we do two French braids?
French roll
/fɹˈɛntʃ ɹˈoʊl/
nouna woman's hairstyle in which the hair is twisted into a vertical roll at the back of the head and fixed with hairpins, barrettes, etc.
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1. He has a big French roll in the seat.
2. So what I do is I like caramelized onions, Swiss cheese, delicious roasted pork and then we're gonna put it into this French roll.
3. One additional distinction to note with hand rolled pocket square edges, if the edge is rolled on to the front side of a pocket square, which is to say, the sign that has the pattern printed or woven onto it, this is known as a French rolled hem.
4. In the case of the French rolled hem, it's a particular style of many scarves and other garments made by Hermes.
5. Bread has migrated to tropical countries, where the middle classes now eat French rolls and hamburgers and where the commuters find bread much more handy to use than rice or cassava.
French twist
/fɹˈɛntʃ twˈɪst/
nouna woman's hairstyle in which the hair is twisted into a vertical roll at the back of the head and fixed with hairpins, barrettes, etc.
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1. The classic French twist is incredibly elegant, and it’s so easy to do.
2. Did you know Grace Kelly wore her hair in a French twist to the 1955 Academy Awards, where she won best actress for her performance in _
3. Try a French twist.
4. Since my hair is already basically straight this morning, I'm just going to brush it out and do a simple French twist in the front.
5. For my hair I have pulled it back into two french twists into a pony tail.
fringe
/ˈfɹɪndʒ/
nounthe front part of someone's hair cut in a way that hangs across their forehead
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1. But every movement has a lunatic fringe.
2. We’ve got fringe!
3. Or, is this fringe?
4. We create these little blips, these little fringes.
5. The fringe looks like hair.
bob
/ˈbɑb/
nouna short haircut for women or men in which the hair is typically cut straight around the head at jaw-level
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1. Harry and Bob were neighbours, and they worked in the same bank.
2. Bob: Wear leech stockings!
3. My name is Bob.
4. So Bob the bodybuilder like me weighs about 180 pounds.
5. Bob, stop this crazy race.
braid
/ˈbɹeɪd/
nouna length of hair formed by twisting three or more bands of hair together
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1. He has braids
2. I had braids.
3. You braid my hair.
4. The story here braids together prime numbers, complex numbers and pi in a very pleasing trio.
5. One braid on this side.
to scrunch
/ˈskɹəntʃ/
verbto squeeze the hair with hands to make it look wavy
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1. That thing's scrunched, brother.
2. And when you get about here, scrunch the hair upward.
3. Scrunching our forehead to send some breath and awareness there.
4. Like scrunched his head.
5. Scrunch it up.
highlight
/ˈhaɪˌɫaɪt/
nouna bright or lighter color applied to sections of the hair, typically through bleaching or dyeing, to create contrast or add dimension to the hairstyle
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1. The current state highlighted a few drawbacks.
2. Nance's skyscraping blocks highlighted Cleveland's impenetrable interior.
3. Highlights will basically take the lightest part of the photo, the brightest lightest part.
4. - Highlight my nose.
5. The dish highlights the versatility of onions.
to sweep
/ˈswip/
verbto brush or comb hair back from the face
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1. Sweep the floor.
2. Sweep the floor.
3. Sweep the floor.
4. Years ago, the US government swept its radioactive misdeeds, quite literally, under the rug.
5. A giant wave sweeps many passengers into the ocean.
to tease
/ˈtiz/
verbto playfully provoke or create volume and texture in hair through backcombing or backbrushing
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1. And so the crow teases the larva.
2. Teased apart the strangest rules and anecdotes.
3. - The Russo brothers tease Iron Man's fate in exclusive Avengers: Endgame footage!
4. A lone mysterious text teases your curiosity.
5. Teasing the crowd.
to tint
/ˈtɪnt/
verbto color someone's hair using a chemical
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1. - Was your windshield tinted?
2. Tinting it as well.
3. Tinting the folder color.
4. These windows aren't tinted.
5. It did tint my brow.
to tousle
/tˈaʊsəl/
verbto make someone's hair appear untidy or unruly
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1. The Wirehaired Pointing Griffon is known for that tousled look of his furnishings.
2. The Berger Picard has that tousled look.
3. Simply put it on blast, give your tresses a tousle and you’re good to go.
4. When you have no time to wash and style your hair, simply apply spray or styling foam to dry roots, tousle your hair with your fingers, and do a backcomb.
5. At times people can tousle your fur, but for the most part you're cool, calm, and collected.
sweptback
/swˈɛptbæk/
adjective(of hair) pulled back from the face
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to wave
/ˈweɪv/
verbto make someone's hair look loosely curled
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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.
topknot
/ˈtɑpˌnɑt/
nouna type of hairstyle made by winding the hair in a bun on the top of the head
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1. A Vegepygmy Chief is a humanoid plant creature with green, vegetable-like skin, a topknot of dark brown leaves, and razor-sharp claws.
2. Topknot, though, that doesn't sound, that doesn't sound.
3. I do wear my glasses and a topknot and a rocker shirt most days.
4. Miley Cyrus When Miley Cyrus chopped off her honey blonde locks back in 2012, it was the end of the topknot era for her.
5. so if you guys are looking for some comfy sweats I would definitely go check that out and to top off the look I've got my braided topknot get it?
Afro
/ˈæfɹoʊ/
nouna hairstyle in which a mass of tightly curled hair stands out around the head
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1. And she had a big afro.
2. In Sea of Thieves, I have an afro.
3. I had a big Afro, jeans.
4. I had a big Afro, jeans.
5. He's got a blonde afro.
knot
/ˈnɑt/
nouna woman's hairstyle in which the hair is twisted into a small round top
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1. "Massages will remove knots in your back."
2. This one, the published statistics of a Sea Harrier are 650 knots.
3. This violent energy pushes the knots along the beams.
4. The knots reveal the speed of the jets.
5. Pull the knot.
bun
/ˈbən/
nouna hairstyle in which The hair is pulled back from the face, twisted, and coiled on top
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1. "The pig shaped buns at Joy Luck Palace."
2. You don't want, like, a bloody burger bun.
3. Ramen bun.
4. My sweet baby angel with his little man bun.
5. We make buns.
to layer
/ˈɫeɪɝ/
verbto cut hair at different lengths in a way that forms overlapping layers
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1. - Also, onions have layers.
2. Again, layering that flavor with a bit of salt.
3. We both have layers.
4. Seven, women love layers.
5. Always have layers!
bang
/ˈbæŋ/
noun(plural) the front part of someone's hair cut in a way that hangs across their forehead
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1. That face bangs!
2. These things are banging.
3. The rabbit banged his little hammer.
4. Bangs the gavel.
5. Just bang some pots and pans every now and then.
bobbed
/bˈɑːbd/
adjective(of hair) cut at an even length all around the head
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1. He plunged deep into the OCEAN, BOBBED to the SURFACE and FLOPPED on to a tiny raft.
2. You bobbed out if it.
3. This is where they get their name, that bobbed, little tiny tail there.
4. Preachers spoke against the trend and pamphlets warning of the supposed health risks involved with bobbed hair were distributed.
5. He likes it really, like bobbed.
cornrows
/kˈɔːɹnɹoʊz/
nouna hair style in which the hair is braided in many flat rows on the scalp
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lowlights
/lˈoʊlaɪts/
nounareas of the hair that are colored in a darker shade by the use of chemical substances
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crop
/ˈkɹɑp/
nouna short haircut with the back and the sides being faded
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1. The animals that farmers raised and the crops they planted depended on where they lived.
2. Crops die.
3. - Crops need energy.
4. He grows crops.
5. Crop the area.
wet look
/wˈɛt lˈʊk/
nouna shiny and wet appearance of the hair, artificially induced by hair gel or chemical treatment
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1. And it works because people like, I spray stuff on my face at the end of my makeup to give it like a wet look and, and people are tricked.
2. First, look at the top, it should be set and no longer shiny or wet looking.
3. While achieving the wet look may sound as simple as washing your hair and throwing in some gel, it's not quite that easy.
4. He recommends coating your hair with high-gloss oil shellac, and working section by section until you achieve that trendy wet look.
undercut
/ˈəndɝˌkət/
nouna hairstyle in which the hair is left rather long on the top but shaved or faded at the sides or back of the head
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1. But later analysis undercut that.
2. What's my undercut?
3. In the United States market, cheap Honduran white rice undercuts its market tremendously.
4. But the reassertion of the citizen-state-territory linkage dramatically can undercut that progress.
5. This dramatically undercuts other TV bundles.
mohawk
/ˈmoʊˌhɔk/
nouna haircut in which all hair is shaven except for a strip in the middle
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1. Number eight, we got the mohawk, with the beard.
2. My favorite is the Mohawk, but not the really high Mohawk.
3. You grow antlers or a Mohawk.
4. Are you getting a mohawk?
5. - He had a little mohawk.
buzz cut
/bˈʌz kˈʌt/
nouna haircut in which the hair is closely cut using electric clippers
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1. So I'm finished with this buzz cut -
2. - I love Vincent Cassel with a buzz cut.
3. - Shia LaBeouf looks cool with a buzz cut.
4. It's a buzz cut.
5. -But you had a signature buzz cut too?
close-cropped
/klˈoʊskɹˈɑːpt/
adjectivecut very short
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crew cut
/kɹˈuː kˈʌt/
nouna man's haircut in which the hair is cut rather short and the center part stands more upright compared to the sides
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1. I mean, right now I have the crew cut, I have the shaved head.
2. Oldest kid ran downstairs to get a better look from the dining room, described him as a white male, glasses, crew cut, stocky, wearing a dark jacket.
3. There's only so many places a 6', 250-pound dude with a crew cut can be placed.
flat-top
/flˈættˈɑːp/
nouna man's haircut in which the hair is cut short, standing upright and forming a deck
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1. For example, the flat disk of Banon is known to originate in Provençe, while a log of the mild and creamy Montrachet comes from Burgundy, and the striking cheese of Valençay, called either Valançay or Pyramide, is instantly recognizable for its flat-topped pyramidal shape (and loved for its mild nutty flavor).
2. In Texas you could call it like a flat-top or a griddle.
3. the men on the other side of the ridge of mountains-- took to attack the British at this flat-topped hill in King's Mountain.
4. The first p is for planar, meaning that the rash is flat-topped.
5. This will take about five minutes or so and then we'll move it to the flat-top.
quiff
/kwˈɪf/
nouna man's hairstyle in which the front part is pushed upward and higher than the rest
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1. You've got a bigger quiff than I do though.
2. We've got Keir Starmer, who I've been trying to draw here with his little red tie and his quiff.
3. They've also got a quiff that crowns their head, which wouldn't look out of place in a hair gel commercial.
beehive
/ˈbiˌhaɪv/
nouna hairstyle for women in which the hair is piled upright in a round shape
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1. A beehive is actually one of the more awesome examples of true democracy in nature.
2. So, there's beehives in the movie.
3. Never approach a beehive in the wild.
4. And the beehive structure in the center of the building reduces Taipei 101's movement during an earthquake or typhoon by 40 percent.
5. - We have a beehive.
bouffant
/bˈuːfənt/
nouna woman's hairstyle in which the hair is arranged in a rounded shape that is raised high on the head
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1. - We're curbside, the children are working a bouffant, a couple of feet from us right now.
2. If this is for a father or a bouffant type role that would be great.
3. In stark contrast to their formerly austere nature, some Samurai during the peaceful Tokugawa era began having extravagant swords created which they could not possibly hope to wield in combat, and started to wear their hair in outlandish bouffants.
4. It's a big bouffant.
5. Think about that the next time you want to pull off that Brigitte Bardot bouffant.
chignon
/tʃinjˈɑːn/
nouna woman's hairstyle in which the hair is pulled back, twisted and pinned at the nape of the neck
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1. It's so colorful I actually still have some banknotes and money from Malaysia, but I don't have any coins and the brass gold looking send coins Thank you, Mohammedan chignon.
2. On the other hand, infrared analysis has since revealed that her tresses were probably partly pinned back into a chignon and covered with a veil, which was more customary for married women, so maybe she wasn't a lady of the night after all.
3. You have created a beautiful little chignon.
4. If you wanted to make it feel like a separate chignon, you could use these to create a kind of banded look on the top.
mullet
/ˈməɫət/
nouna hairstyle in which the hair is shorter in the front and sides and longer at the back
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1. My mullet was incredible.
2. They had mullets.
3. - No, it means mullet.
4. I had a mullet.
5. He wants a mullet.
perm
/pˈɜːm/
nounan artificial process in which the hair is given permanent waves or curls
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1. Two, I had perms my entire childhood.
2. - Had you ever gotten a perm before?
3. - You know, a girl in my sorority Tracy Marcinko got a perm once.
4. Did you get a perm, Sophia?!
5. Listen up ladies, perms are back.
pigtail
/pˈɪɡteɪl/
nouna braided piece of hair, hanging from the back or in a pair at sides of the head
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1. - She's got pigtails too like this.
2. He wore his hair in a pigtail.
3. What's wrong, Pigtail?
4. Put your hair in pigtails or a high ponytail.
5. Like pigtails, but plaited.
tonsure
/tˈɑːnʒɚ/
nounthe act of shaving all or part of the hair on the scalp, often for religious or cultural reasons
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1. Many monks, like the Benedictines, embraced the tonsure, a hairstyle where the crown of the head is shaved with only a narrow ring of hair remaining.
2. This haircut, with the center shave, is called a tonsure.
3. These differences over tonsure were outward signs of a split in the Church.
4. When the Roman Catholic Church took Ireland, they slowly changed its tonsure too.
5. In the Roman Catholic Church, clerical tonsure ended in 1972.
pudding basin
/pʊdɪŋ beɪsən/
nouna hairstyle in which the hair is cut short all around the head, giving the appearance of a bowl placed on top of the head
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pageboy
/pˈeɪdʒbɔɪ/
nouna hairstyle with straight, shoulder-length hair and blunt-cut bangs, popular in the 1950s and 1960s, named after young attendants to noblemen
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1. The pageboy Daring, short cuts will be back for those who are willing to show off their features.
2. Christopher would have been a pageboy had his daddy's wedding ceremony taken place as originally planned, so we missed out on all that cuteness, but there will probably be many adorable photo ops to come now that he's the Queen's step-great-grandson.
plait
/ˈpɫeɪt/
nouna long piece of hair formed by three parts twisted over each other
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1. I sat next to Phil Plait
2. It's called plait bread.
3. Please S'il vous plait.
4. And they are plaiting hair.
5. but I get so many compliments on these plaits.
ponytail
/ˈpoʊniˌteɪɫ/
nouna hairstyle in which the hair is pulled away from the face and gathered at the back of the head, secured in a way that hangs loosely
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1. Ponytails are just like hymens.
2. Ponytails are powerful.
3. I did the ponytails.
4. I like the ponytail.
5. I like your ponytail. -
to perm
/pˈɜːm/
verbto make a straight hair become curly for a period of time, using chemicals
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1. Two, I had perms my entire childhood.
2. - Had you ever gotten a perm before?
3. - You know, a girl in my sorority Tracy Marcinko got a perm once.
4. Did you get a perm, Sophia?!
5. Listen up ladies, perms are back.
bunches
/ˈbʌntʃɪz/
nouna hairstyle in which the hair is tied into two clusters or ponytails, one on either side of the head, usually worn by girls or young women
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punky
/ˈpəŋki/
adjectivehaving an appearance or attitude that is characteristic of people who play punk music
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1. Punky says tomorrow's career day.
2. Buzz gives Punky a Young Astronaut shirt.
3. Look at our punky boys.
4. He's getting punky.
5. You were emo/punky as a teenager.