Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of cutting the hair.
- n. A style in which hair is cut.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
- n. The way hair is cut.
- n. law In a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor, based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the style in which hair has been cut
- n. the act of cutting the hair
Etymologies
- From hair + cut (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This is progress for a Continent that dared not to breathe the word haircut only months ago.”
“And, I have raised this before, but where oh where did the term 'haircut' come from?”
“Momentarily, he was tempted to ask Inti what he called his haircut, but on the off chance that the boatman might answer "Arthur, " as George Harrison had responded to the same question in A Hard Day's Night, he held his tongue.”
“Frank Churchill's quick excursion for a "haircut" is quite obviously beyond the limits of realistic constraint.”
“General Kagan has a short haircut, is fond of wearing suits, and has no family life of which she speaks publicly, for starters.”
“The haircut is a huge improvement and his body was ridiculous.”
“By the way, the 2nd picture of her new haircut is lovely.”
“The odd mortgage payment has bounced … the lack of haircut is the most annoying, though.”
“Christopher Whalen: The issue of a haircut is different from the paper work.”
Lists
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
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3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
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An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
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more chambers 12th dictionary
more stuff Ive collected
they put in 200 items and reckon
thats an update ,so what do
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for haircut.
john "In November 2005, the house sold for $126,000. The bank, which took it back last spring, is asking $59,000. The Seattle man offers $40,000.
The mayor says the lender is not desperate enough to take that big a haircut. “Not going to happen,�? she says."
The New York Times, In the Central Valley, the Ruins of the Housing Bust, by David Streitfeld, August 23, 2008 Aug 24, 2008
Prolagus This is the point: trichectomy would mean cutting your hair... off (in a surgical way). Trichotomy does mean haircut, it's not one of my madeupical terms! The ancient Greek word τομή means "cut" (τέμνω = to cut).
If it can help, google search for pubic trichotomy or abdominal trichotomy. May 4, 2008
sionnach I don't quite understand your invocation of the suffix 'tomy' here to indicate hair'cut'. The standard Greek suffix to indicate 'cut, excision, or surgical removal' is 'ectomy', so you would have to say 'trichectomy', not 'trichotomy'.
on edit: the point being, I think, that when hair is cut, it implies removal, as opposed to the kind of incision or dissection that 'otomy' might imply for a different body organ. May 4, 2008
Prolagus See also trichotomy. May 4, 2008
bilby "I now live in one of the poorest places in Britain. The teenagers here have expensive haircuts, fashionable clothes and mobile phones. Most of those who are old enough have cars, which they drive incessantly and write off every few weeks." - 'Bring On The Recession', George Monbiot, 9 Oct 2007. Dec 12, 2007