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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overpluck.

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Examples

  • "On the visible level, this middle-aged patient dresses to look too young, exhibits a tense, continuous smile and may have bitten nails or overplucked eyebrows," says the ad copy.

    Martha Rosenberg: Do These Drug Ads Offend You? Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • "On the visible level, this middle-aged patient dresses to look too young, exhibits a tense, continuous smile and may have bitten nails or overplucked eyebrows," says the ad copy.

    Martha Rosenberg: Do These Drug Ads Offend You? Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • "On the visible level, this middle-aged patient dresses to look too young, exhibits a tense, continuous smile and may have bitten nails or overplucked eyebrows," says the ad copy.

    Martha Rosenberg: Do These Drug Ads Offend You? Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • "On the visible level, this middle-aged patient dresses to look too young, exhibits a tense, continuous smile and may have bitten nails or overplucked eyebrows," says the ad copy.

    Martha Rosenberg: Do These Drug Ads Offend You? Martha Rosenberg 2012

  • In the 1960s and 1970s, antidepressants were suggested for telltale bitten nails and overplucked eyebrows, antipsychotics for

    Do You Suffer from Eyebrow Plucking Disease? Divorce? 2009

  • My mom overplucked in her 20s, and is almost eyebrow-bald now!

    Golden Arches kittenpie 2007

  • Not a far cry from scalp hair restoration (think Hair Club For Men), brow transplants take hair follicles from "donor areas" (usually at the back or sides of the scalp) and use them to fill in patchy spots, add thickness to overplucked arches, or replace long-gone brows altogether.

    Michelle Madhok: Would You Go For Brooke With Brow Transplants? 2008

  • Strengths: Able to exchange wicked repartee, and spin a cliche at a moments notice, whilst maintaining flawlessly overplucked eyebrows and sporting some seriously shimmering decolletage.

    wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007

  • My mother swears that no man would ever be attracted to a girl with overplucked eyebrows.

    wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007

  • Frankly, I think overplucked eyebrows are much more unattractive than unplucked ones.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

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