Definitions

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  • adjective having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly)

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Examples

  • I really had just two choices: I could get a crew cut and end up looking like a Monchichi a burr-headed, Japanese monkey doll popular in the '70s, or I could let it grow out, a style my own mother called the "space helmet."

    Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Good Night, and Don't Let the Bedbugs Paralyze Todd Hartley 2011

  • I really had just two choices: I could get a crew cut and end up looking like a Monchichi a burr-headed, Japanese monkey doll popular in the '70s, or I could let it grow out, a style my own mother called the "space helmet."

    Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Good Night, and Don't Let the Bedbugs Paralyze Todd Hartley 2011

  • I really had just two choices: I could get a crew cut and end up looking like a Monchichi a burr-headed, Japanese monkey doll popular in the '70s, or I could let it grow out, a style my own mother called the "space helmet."

    Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Good Night, and Don't Let the Bedbugs Paralyze Todd Hartley 2011

  • I really had just two choices: I could get a crew cut and end up looking like a Monchichi a burr-headed, Japanese monkey doll popular in the '70s, or I could let it grow out, a style my own mother called the "space helmet."

    Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Good Night, and Don't Let the Bedbugs Paralyze Todd Hartley 2011

  • The Kansas Busheviks know it's coming ... smug, bitter, burr-headed and beer bellied the bullies scream the country roads in their monster pick'em ups 4 X 4 X 44 hate radio "talk" blaring across the cornfields, warning the oldsters of Armageddeon and who are the Chosen Few to live in Heaven.

    Chris Hedges: "It's not going to be okay ..." - Truthdig Michael Caddell 2009

  • A moment later we heard a loud curse, and we looked out from under the racks and saw a big, burr-headed boy staring at his hand with a horrified expression on his face

    Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

  • Naturally, the nearest burr-headed souse of usher stumblebummed into action, yelling at the top of his Yuenglings … "I'LL GET THOSE FUCKIN 'NIGGERS!"

    Bronx Banter 2008

  • “He went in the girls’ bathroom,” a burr-headed boy in short pants said from under a table.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • “He went in the girls’ bathroom,” a burr-headed boy in short pants said from under a table.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • “He went in the girls’ bathroom,” a burr-headed boy in short pants said from under a table.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

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