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  • adjective Having long hair.
  • adjective Artistic or intellectual (often disparaging).
  • adjective Hippie-like (disparaging).

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Examples

  • Owen Marecic gives up long hair and linebacking -- Stanford's Owen Marecic was known as a longhaired beast who played both fullback and linebacker.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Vittorio Tafur 2011

  • Stanford's Owen Marecic was known as a longhaired beast who played both fullback and linebacker.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Vittorio Tafur 2011

  • So the idea that anyone – anyone – gives even a passing thought to the claim that because three year old Shiloh Pitt-Jolie has short hair she has or is developing gender identity issues kinda makes my head explode, which is inconvenient, because the sparks from my exploding – non-longhaired!

    Even Rapunzel Cut Her Hair, Yo - Her Bad Mother 2010

  • When I was a kid, I took a few weeks of lessons with a longhaired dude from a nearby guitar shop who mostly told me sad stories about getting kicked out of Sha Na Na.

    David Wild: There Goes My Guitar Hero, Brad Paisley David Wild 2011

  • Gary Burton During the 1960s, jazz aficionados came to know Gary Burton—a skinny, longhaired vibraphone sensation who wielded four mallets at a time, spinning out beautiful musical lines in intricate counterpoint at lightning speed.

    'The Guy With Four Sticks' Stuart Isacoff 2011

  • I was a longhaired, hard-drinking journalist -- a Woodward and/or Bernstein in training -- who would someday expose wrongdoers and bring down corrupt powerbrokers.

    Daniel Cubias: Is Tribalism on the Increase? Daniel Cubias 2011

  • But a few longhaired young organisers I encounter tell me they would go to any demonstration called now.

    Hopes and fears: an Algiers diary | Karima Bennoune 2011

  • When I was a kid, I took a few weeks of lessons with a longhaired dude from a nearby guitar shop who mostly told me sad stories about getting kicked out of Sha Na Na.

    David Wild: There Goes My Guitar Hero, Brad Paisley David Wild 2011

  • Perhaps it was my sisters defending those longhaired, unpatriotic anti-war protesters.

    Dorian de Wind: Bachmann's Epiphany and My Own 'Conversion' Dorian de Wind 2011

  • When I was a kid, I took a few weeks of lessons with a longhaired dude from a nearby guitar shop who mostly told me sad stories about getting kicked out of Sha Na Na.

    David Wild: There Goes My Guitar Hero, Brad Paisley David Wild 2011

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