Reverse Dictionary: HAIR

HAIR – adjectives (also see CURL)
– AFROED wearing an Afro hairstyle …1930s orig. US Black
– AFRO-STYLE wearing an Afro hairstyle …1930s orig. US Black
– AURICOMOUS having golden hair …1864
– BADGERLY greyish-haired, elderly …1753
– BLONK † of hair: fair, blond
– BLOOD-BOLTERED † clotted, clogged, or smeared with blood; having the hair matted with blood …1848
– BLOOMY of hair: grey …1940 Amer. dial.
– BRICK-TOPPED red-headed …1912 Amer. dial.
– BURRHEAD of Black people: having tight, curly hair …1930 Amer. dial.
– BURRHEADED of Black people: having tight, curly hair …1948 Amer. dial.
– BUSHED having a bushy head of hair …a1513
– CADDIT of hair: matted, tangled …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAIN-COLOURED † of the reputed colour of the hair of Cain, to whom, as to Judas Iscariot, a ‘red’ or reddish-yellow beard was attributed …1598
– CALF-LICKED having hair on the forehead which will not lie flat …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CAPILLATE furnished with hair …1881
– CAPILLOSE * having much hair, covered with hair, hairy …19C
– CARROT-HEADED having red hair …1884 Amer. sl.
– CARROT-TOPPED having red hair …1889 Amer. sl.
– CARROTTY-HEADED having red hair …1867 Amer. sl.
– CARROTY red-haired …1696
– CARROTY-HAIRED red-haired …1856
– CARROTY-HEADED red-haired …1840
– CARROTY-POLLED red-haired …1795
– CONKED of hair: straightened by application of lye or other chemicals …1940s US Black sl.
– COPPER-TOPPED red-haired …1892 Eng. dial.
– DARK-AVISED having dark hair and eyes; also, dark-complexioned …1918 Sc.
– DECAPILLATED * having the hair pulled or fallen off …1727
– DECAPILLATORY pert. to the removal of hair from the head or face …1839 nonce word
– DETRESSED † of hair: out of ‘tress’ or plait; hanging loose …1500-20
– DRAGGLE-HAIRED with hair hanging wet and untidy …1865 nonce word
– ELF-LOCKED having tangled hair …1647
– FAXED † having hair, hairy …891
– FLAVICOMOUS † having yellow hair …1727 obs.
– FOXY having red hair …M19 sl.
– FRIED, DRIED, AND SWEPT ASIDE said of bleached hair that suggests straw …1997 US sl.
– FRIED, DYED, COMBED TO THE SIDE used as a description of a Black person’s hair that has been chemically straightened …1980 US sl.
– FRIED, DYED, SWOOPED TO THE SIDE used as a description of a Black person’s hair that has been chemically straightened …1980 US sl.
– GALLOWS-ROUNDED of hair: cut round like that of a condemned criminal …1567
– HAIR ABOUT describing the hair when it is changing to grey …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HAIR-DRY without getting your hair wet …1991 US sl.
– HAIRED having a mixture of white and red or white and black hairs …Bk1905 Sc.
֩– HAIREN made or consisting of hair …971 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HAIRHEAD long-haired …1970s sl.
– HAIR-PITCHED having rough, unbrushed hair or coat …1865 Eng. dial.
– HAIZERT of the hair: grizzled, streaked with grey …a1838 Sc.
– HASARD † grey-haired, hoary …1513 Sc.
– HASART † grey-haired, hoary …1513 Sc..
– HEAVILY CONKED TO THE BONE said of well-groomed hair …1960s Amer. sl.
– IN ONE’S HAIR with the hair down …1533  
– LANKY † of hair: somewhat lank …1670
– LIKE A BIRCH-BROOM IN A FIT said of rough, tousled hair …1872
– LINT-HAIRED having flaxen locks …1891
– LOCKERED 1. of hair: matted, entangled …1824 Eng. dial.
2. of hair: curled …B1900 obs., chiefly Sc.
– LUNKERED of the hair: tangled …B1900 Eng. dial.
– LYARD, LYART † of hair: grey, silvery grey approaching white …c1420 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MADE said of someone who has had their hair straightened; usually of women or girls …1940s US Black sl.
– MADONNA-BRAIDED of the hair: arranged in smooth braids on each side of the face …1849 104
– MOPPY of hair: thick, untidy, dishevelled
– NAPPY (often derogatory) of hair: usually of the hair of a Black person: naturally tightly curled, frizzy …1885 US sl.
– NAPPY-HEADED (sometimes derogatory) having kinky hair …c1937 Amer. dial.
– NATTY of hair: matted, uncombed; in a condition to be formed into dreadlocks …1974 Jamaica sl.
– NOTT-HEADED † having the hair cut close …1611-12
– PACHYTRICHOUS having thick hair …1857
– PHILOCOMAL characterized by love of or attention to the hair …1869
– PICK-HAIRED † having thin, sparse hair …1653
– POISON-PATED red-haired …1780
– RED having red or ginger hair …1930s Aust. sl.
– SALT-AND-PEPPER of hair: black and grey/white …1950s US sl.
– SANDY-POWED sandy-haired …1866 Eng. dial.
– SHAG * having shaggy hair …1593
– TAGGED of hair or wool: hanging in matted locks …1757
– TATTED of hair, wool, etc.: matted, entangled, rough, shaggy, unkempt …1721 Sc.
– TATTY of hair: tangled, matted …1513 Sc.
– TAWTY of the hair, etc.: matted, shaggy …1856 Sc.
– TAWTY-HEADED shaggy-headed …1831 Sc.
– TAZZLED tangled, fuzzy, twisted, knotted …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TAZZY fuzzy, tangled, knotted …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TITIAN of hair colour: red …1904
– UNBROIDED † of hair: unbraided, loose, dishevelled …c1374
– UNBROIDEN † of hair: adj. unbraided, loose, dishevelled …c1374
– VAGRANT of hair: straggling in growth or habit …1862
– VUZZY of hair: rough, tangled, unkempt …1899 Eng. dial.
– WHITE-LOCKED † having locks of fair hair …1777
– XANTHOCOMIC yellow-haired …1861 nonce word
hair – nouns  (also see HAIR CUT)
– AFRICAN CUE a closely cropped Afro …1970 Amer. dial.
– AFRO a Black (occasionally White) hairstyle in which normally short, curly hair is allowed to grow out in a bush around the head, supposedly in the style of one’s African forebears …1930s orig. US Black
– AGGERAWATOR a favoured costermongers’ hairstyle, consisting of a well-greased lock of hair twisted and pointing either at the corner of an eye or at an ear …B1836 costermongers’ sl.
– AGGRAVATORS the greasy locks of hair in vogue amongst costermongers and other street folk, worn twisted from the temple back towards the ear …1860 sl.
– ALF GARNETT the hair …1990s rhyming sl. for ‘Barnet’
– BABY-DREADS a short version of the braided hair worn by Rastafarians …1990s US Black sl.
– BALE OF STRAW blonde hair …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BALL hair coiled at the back of a woman’s head; a bun …1965 Amer. dial.
– BASON-CROP the method of cutting the hair all round alike …1648 Eng. dial.
– BEAR-SKIN hair …L16 sl.
– BEAU-CATCHER a ringlet on the forehead or cheek …1923 Amer. dial.
– BEE GUM a woman’s hair put up on her head in a bunch …1967 Amer. dial.
– BERGER †* a curl of hair …1690
– BEVERLEY CROP close-cropped hair …1890 Eng. dial.
– BIG HAIR long hair teased and lacquered into a large bouffant …1988 sl., orig. US
– BICKER-CUT hair-cutting by means of a bowl placed on the head …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BIRSE a bristle; hair; a plume of hair or bristles …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BISCUIT a small bun or roll of hair …c1960 Amer. dial.
– BONNY FAIR the hair …20C US sl.
– BRICKTOP a person with red hair; the head of hair itself …1856 Amer. dial.
– BUG RUN a parting in the hair …1948 UK sl.
– BULL † false hair worn formerly by women …1690 sl.
– BUNG a woman’s hair put up on her head in a bunch …1969 Amer. dial.
– BURLAP HAIR false hair, worn by men …1967 Amer. dial.
– BURLAP TOP false hair, worn by men …1967 Amer. dial.
– BUSH a bushy head of hair …1509
– BUZZ CUT a cutting off of all or most of the hair …1990s Amer. sl.
– BUZZED HAIR a cutting off of all or most of the hair …1990s Amer. sl.
– CABBAGE a form of hairdressing resembling a chignon, popular in the late 17th century and early 18th century …L17 sl.
– CALAMISTRATION curling the hair
– CALF-LICK a tuft of hair on the forehead which will not lie smoothly and evenly …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– CAPILLATURE †* a frizzing of the hair; the bush of hair on the head …1656
– CARROTS red hair, or one who has such hair …c1685 humorous or derisive usage
– CEW-PEE the curls of hair on the top of a child’s head …Bk1905 Eng. dial. 
– CHEMICAL HEAD a hairstyle in which curly hair is straightened and smoothed down or lightly waved …1974 Amer. dial.
– CHICKEN SCRATCH short, tightly curled hair …1950s US Black sl.
– CHONGO a woman’s top-knot; a bun …1967 Amer. dial.
– COOTIE GARAGE the hair, esp. when styled elaborately …1920s US sl.
– COTTON †* down or soft hair growing on the body …1615
– COUSINS curly hair on the back of the neck …1982 Bahamas sl.
– CROCKETTS † locks of hair …19C
– CRULL a bushy curly head of hair …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– D.A. a hairstyle popular in the early 1950s; the hair was tapered and curled on the nape of the neck like the feathers of a duck’s tail …1951 sl., orig. US
– DABBERLOCKS hair hanging in lank, tangled and separate locks …1825 Sc.
– DABERLACKS hair hanging in lank, tangled and separate locks …1825 Sc.
– DABERLICK the hair of the head when hanging in lank, tangled, and separate locks …Bk1900 Sc.
– DARTMOOR CROP short-cut hair …1915 Brit. military sl.
– DASHER a large-toothed comb for the hair …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DO a hairstyle …20C teen & high school sl.
– DOOR-KNOCKER a female hairstyle consisting of two plaits bunched on top of the head …L19 sl.
– DO-RAG a kerchief or scarf worn on the head to protect the hairdo, esp. after kinky hair has been straightened …1960 sl.
– DRUGSTORE BLONDE artificially blonde hair …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DUCK-ARSE a hairstyle with the hair on the back of the head shaped like a duck’s tail, favoured by Teddy boys …1951 sl.
– DUCK BUTT a hairstyle popular in the early 1950s, in which the hair was tapered and curled on the nape of the neck like the feathers of a duck’s tail …1955 US sl.
– DUCK’S ANATOMY a hairstyle popular in the early 1950s, esp. among Teddy Boys; the hair was tapered and curled on the nape of the neck like the feathers of a duck’s tail …1955 UK euphemism
– DUCK’S ARSE a hairstyle popular in the early 1950s, esp. among Teddy Boys; the hair was tapered and curled on the nape of the neck like the feathers of a duck’s tail …1955 UK sl.
– DUCK’S ASS same as ‘DUCK’S ARSE’ …1955 UK sl.
– DUCK’S BEHIND a hairstyle with the hair on the back of the head shaped like a duck’s tail, favoured by Teddy boys …1951 sl.
– DUCK TAIL a hairstyle popular in the early 1950s, in which a boy’s hair was tapered and curled on the nape of the neck like the feathers of a duck’s tail …1943 US sl.
– EARLOCK a curl or lock of hair close to the ear
– EAVESING † the act of trimming the edges of anything; clipping, polling, shearing; also, what is cut off; the clippings of hair …a800
– ELF-LOCKS tangled masses of hair …1838 Eng. dial.
– ELF-SWITCHES tangled masses of hair …1838 Eng. dial.
– EVERY POSTMAN ON HIS BEAT kinky hair that stands up in odd strands or areas of the head …1930s US Black sl.
– FADE a hairstyle in which the sides of the head are close-cropped and the top hair is shaped into an upright block …1989 US sl., esp. Black
– FADIE a haircut style in which the sides of the head are closely cut and the top of the head is not …1989 US sl.
– FANNY BLAIR the hair …M19 Brit. rhyming sl.
– FAVOURITE a curl or lock of hair hanging loose upon the temple: worn in the 17th and 18th centuries …1690
– FAX † the hair of the head …c900
– FEAK a dangling curl of hair …1548
– FRENCH BALL hair coiled at the back of a woman’s head; a bun …1965 Amer. dial.
– FRO a hairdo, sometimes worn by American Blacks, where the hair appears to be a large fluffy ball  …1970 Amer. sl.
– GALLOWS-LOCKS hair that hangs like gallows ropes …1809
– GOLDIE-LOCKS blonde hair …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GRANNY KNOT a woman’s hair piled up on her head in a bunch …1968 Amer. dial.
– GRAPE TWIST a kink or snarl in one’s hair …1927 Amer. dial.
– GREEK GOD a hairstyle with short curls all over the head
– HACKLES hair, whiskers …1882
– HAFFET-LOCKS locks of hair growing on the temples …1725 Sc.
– HAFFETS locks of hair growing on the temples …1725 Sc.
– HAGGERAWATOR a favoured costermongers’ hairstyle, consisting of a well-greased lock of hair twisted and pointing either at the corner of an eye or at an ear …M19
– HAIR-BUSH † a bushy head of hair …1583
– HAIR-DO a style or process of arranging a woman’s hair …1932 colloq. orig. US
– HARIGALDS locks of hair …1725 Sc.
– HARL hair, wool …1824 Eng. dial.
– HASSOCK a ‘shock’ of hair …1742 Sc.
– HAYCOCK a woman’s hairdo, the hair is up on the head in a bunch …1967 Amer. dial.
– HAYSTACK a woman’s hairdo, the hair is up on the head in a bunch …1967 Amer. dial.
– HEAD the hair of the head …1882 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HEAD-THEEAK thick hair which hangs like thatch on the head; a head-covering of any kind …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HEARTBREAKER a curl, a love-lock …1663
– HUMMEL the hair …2000 Eng. gypsy use
– IDIOT FRINGE a popular hairstyle for girls and young women …L19 sl.
– ISRO a bushy hairstyle worn by White people, often curly-headed Jews …1970s US sl.
– IZRO a bushy hairstyle worn by White people, often curly-headed Jews …1970s US sl.
– KAME a combing of the hair …1920 Sc.
– KITCHEN the nape of the neck; the hair at the nape of the neck, esp. when knotted or kinky; a knot or tangle of hair, esp. at the nape of the neck …1974 Amer. dial.
– LACHTER a lock of hair …1704 Sc.
– LIGHTER a crewcut haircut …1951 US teen sl.
– LOAD OF HAY, A long hair; generally said of men …1922 Amer. dial.
– MACARTHUR SWEEP a combing the hair from the side of the head over a bald spot on top of the head …1953 US sl.
– MADONNA a mode of dressing a woman’s hair, with the parting down the middle, and the hair arranged smoothly on each side …a1839
– MANE a person’s long hair …c1375
– MANSCAPING the clipping, shaving, shaping of male body hair for aesthetic effect …2004 US sl.
– MESSY ATTIC hair in need of dressing …1950s US Black sl.
– MOP a tangle of hair
– MOSS ON THE BOSOM hair growing on the man’s chest …20C US sl.
– MULLET a hairstyle; the hair is worn short at the front and long at the back; it was fashionable in the 1980s and much derided by the fashion-conscious generations that followed …1997 US sl.
– NAP 1. a tight curl of hair …1931 Amer. Black usage
2. the short, curly hair of a Black person …1969 US sl.
3. the hair; your hairstyle …1996 US sl.
– NAPPY EDGES brittle and broken hair along the hairline …1870s US Black sl.
– NAPS kinky hair …1870s sl. US Black sl.
– NATCHIE an untrimmed, natural Black hairstyle …1960s US Black sl.
– NATTY hair that is knotty or matted, as in Rastafarian dreadlocks …1974 sl.
– NATURAL hair worn cut and combed but without oils or grease; groomed or ungroomed bushy hair; the hair is usually sculpted in a tall and rounded fashion like a crown …1965 US Black sl.
– NEWGATE-KNOCKER a lock of hair like the figure 6, twisted from the temple towards the ear; chiefly in vogue 1840-50 …1851 sl.
– NOB-THATCH the hair …1865 sl.
– OOGA-TOOGA scanty hair on a person’s head …1947 Sc.
– PATH a part in the hair …1973 Amer. dial.
– PEROXIDE BLONDE artificially blonde hair …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– POLLY a hair bun or ponytail …1968 Amer. dial.
– POLLY-WAD a hair bun or ponytail …1968 Amer. dial.
– QUEUE-PEE the curls of hair on the top of a child’s head …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RACK coarse hair …M19 Irish sl.
– RAT a hair-pad with tapering ends used as the base of the elaborate pompadour hairstyles affected by women in the late 19th century …L19 US sl.
– RAT’S NEST a disordered mess; a tangle, esp. of hair …1850
– RAT-TAILS long unkempt locks of hair …1864 Eng. dial.
– RIB a single hair …1888 Ireland
– RED-TOPPIN red hair …1898 Eng. dial.
– ROACH the cowlick (of hair) …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– RUSH * a thick growth or tuft of hair …1932 Eng. dial.
– SCARBOROUGH FAIR hair …1990s Brit. rhyming sl.
– SCOLDING LOCKS hair or curls that do not stay in place …1942 Amer. dial.
– SCORE the parting of the hair on the head …1910 Sc.
– SHAG * rough matted hair, wool, etc. …c1050
– SHAGGING a rumpling of the hair …Bk1913 Amer dial.
– SHODE a hair parting 
– SIDE COMB hair parted on the side …1982 Hawaiian youth usage
– SIDE-LEVERS hair growing down the cheek at the side of the ear …20C sl.
– SILKY-STRAIGHT any hairstyle with artificially straightened hair …1981 US sl.
– SKIFFLE a very short hairstyle …1999 Jamaica
– SKULL-FRY chemically straightened hair …1970 US sl.
– SNAIL TRACK a vertical line of hair on the stomach …1999 Aust.sl.
​- SOAP LOCK a hairstyle favoured by the New York gangs of the period; a lock of hair was carefully curled then covered with soap to make it lie flat …M19 US sl.
– SOUL PATCH a single tuft of hair worn beneath the lower lip …1990s sl., orig. US Black
– SPONGE HAIR hair that resists combing …1930s US Black sl.
– STROMMEL hair …Bk1904 sl.
– SUIT OF HAIR a full head of hair …Bk1904 sl.
– TAIL a twisted or braided tress of hair; a pigtail …1799
– TAIT 1. a lock of hair …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
2. an untidy head of hair …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TANGLE a lock of hair …1864 Eng. dial.
– TAPITOORIE a topknot of hair, a bun …1872 Sc.
– TAPPIETOURIE a topknot of hair, a bun …1872 Sc.
– TAT a tuft of hair, wool, etc.; a matted mass …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAUT a tangled matted tuft or lock of wool, hair, etc. …1887 Sc.
– TAZZ a tangle; esp. used of a rough head of hair; a heap of knots and loose ends …1880 Eng. dial.
– TAZZLE a tangle; a state of disorder; esp. used of the hair …1893 Eng. dial.
– THATCH a head of hair …1900 Eng. dial.
– TIE a knot of hair; a pigtail …1728
– TONSURE the act of clipping the hair, or shaving the head; the state of being shorn …1390
– TOP † the hair on the summit or crown of the head; the hair of the head …c1205 obs. exc. Sc.
– TOPPING † 1. a high head-dress or coiffure …c1690
2. a crest or topknot of hair, e.g. of a hairstyle adopted by men in the first half of the 19th century, in which the hair was combed up to form a crest or ridge on the top of the head …c1800 Sc.
– TOQUE † a cushion or pad worn by women to raise up the hair …1817
– TOWER false hair …L17
– TRAMMELETS †* n. braids, tresses …1654
– TROLLEY BUN a woman’s bun up on her head in a bunch …1967 Amer. dial.
– UNDERGROWTH the short hair about the nape of the neck …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– UPWARD DRAG a hairstyle for men in which the hair is brushed forward over the forehead and cut in a straight line from ear to ear …L19 sl.
– WAD a compact coil of hair at the top or back of a woman’s head …1870 Amer. dial.
– WATERFALL false hair …M19 sl.
– WIGGLES pigtails …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– WITCH KNOT a tangled knot of hair …1830 Amer. dial.
– WITCH’S KNOT a tangled knot of hair …1952 Amer. dial.
hair – person
– ACE OF SPADES a black-haired woman …Bk1921 sl.
– ACERSECOMIC †* one whose hair was never cut …1623
– ACROCOMIC † one having long hair …1623
– AEROPLANE BLONDE a woman who is not a natural blonde …1990s Brit. sl.
– AIRPLANE BLONDE a woman with dyed blonde hair …1990s sl.
– BADGER a red-haired individual …Bk1891 schoolboy sl.
– BALE OF HAY a blonde person …1947 US sl.
– BALE OF STRAW a blonde person …c1928 US sl.
– B.B. HEAD a boy with a tight-curled ‘knotty’ head …Bk1994 US Black sl.
– BEAN-HEAD a person with a crew-cut …1959 UK sl.
– BE-BOP-A-ROLLER a teenage girl with her hair done up in rollers …Bk1972 homosexual sl.
– BITUMEN BLONDE a brunette; a dark-haired woman …Bk1988 Aust. sl.
– BLACK † a black-haired person …c1686
– BLACK MAN † a dark-haired or swarthy man …a1398
– BLOWSABELLA a woman whose hair is dishevelled, and hanging about her face; a slattern; a vulgar, self-assertive woman, usually stout …1883 theatrical sl.
– BLUE a nickname for a red-haired person, esp. a man or boy …1932 Aust. & NZ sl.
– BLUEY a nickname for a red-haired person …1918 Aust. & NZ sl.
– BOTTLE BABY a woman with dyed blonde hair …World War II Amer. sl.
– BOTTLE BLONDE a person whose blonde hair is the result of bleach, not nature …1972 US sl.
– BOXIE a bleached blonde …20C teen & high school sl.
– BRICKTOP a person with red hair; the head of hair itself …1856 Amer. dial.
– BRICKYARD BLONDE a woman with red hair …c1950 Amer. dial.
– BROWNETTA † a brunette …1582
– BUSHFIRE BLONDE a redhead …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– CALAMIST † ‘one having his haire turning upwards’ …1623
– CARROTHEAD a red-headed person …1867 Amer. sl.
– CARROTS red hair, or one who has such hair …c1685 humorous or derisive usage
– CARROT-TOP a red-headed person …1889 US sl.
– CARROTTY-POLL a nickname for a person with red hair …1825 Eng. dial.
– CHICKEN’S HEAD 1. a woman with little or no hair …1980s US Black sl.
  2. a woman with unruly, unkempt hair …1980s US Black sl.
– COPPER-KNOB, COPPER-NOB a red-headed person …L19 sl.
– COPPER-TOP a red-headed person; a red head of hair …1916 Eng. dial. & sl.
– CRULLEY-HEAD one with a curly head …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CUE BALL a boy with a crew haircut …Bk1942 US sl.
– CURL a form of address for a bald man or one with curly hair …1984 Aust. sl.
– DAG-LOCKS a man with long, curling hair, or whose beard is unkempt …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DANE a red-haired man, a term of reproach …1865 Eng. dial.
– DARK a nickname for those with dark hair or complexion …1910s Aust. sl.
– DARKEY, DARKIE, DARKY a person with dark hair …1930s sl.
– FAIR * a person with fair hair or light skin …1771
– FAIRY a blonde-haired woman …20C NZ sl.
– FLAMER a redhead …E19 sl.
– FLAMES a red-haired person; also, a term of address …1823 colloq.
– GAS-HEAD a person with chemically straightened hair …1968 US sl.
– GINGE a person with red or reddish hair …1911 colloq.
– GINGER a person with reddish-yellow or (light) orange-brown hair, typically characterized by pale skin and freckles; any person with reddish hair …1823
– GINGER NOB a red-haired person …1878 Brit. sl.
– GINGER NUT a red-haired person …1903 Brit. sl.
– GINGER-POLL a red-haired person …Bk1886 Eng. dial.
– GINGERSNAP †* a hot-tempered person, esp. one with ginger hair …1889 US
– GINGER-TOP a redhead …1998 UK sl.
– GINGER-TOPPIN a person with red hair …Bk1888 Eng. dial.
– GINNER a person with ginger hair …2005 UK sl.
– HAIRHEAD a long-haired man; one who poses as a hipster …1971 US sl.
– HAIR-HOPPER a woman who frequently changes her hairstyle …1987 US sl.
– HAIR-MAN a man who dresses or makes up hair …1689
– HAIROLOGIST a specialist in the care and treatment of hair …1973 
– HAIRTREE a man who wears his hair long and styled as a fashion statement …1996 US sl.
– HANDKERCHIEF HEAD one who wears a rag on his head to preserve his expensively processed hair-do …1970 Amer. Black dial.
– HARLOW a nickname for one who is blond and daring …Bk1972 homosexual sl. 
– HASARD, HASART † a grey-haired man …1513 Sc.
– HEATHERIE-HEAD one with a tousled or shaggy head of hair …1825 Sc.
– JASEY, JAZEY a man with an enormous quantity of hair upon his head and face …1859 Amer. thieves’ sl.
– KINKY one who has kinky hair, thus, usually a Black person …1920s US sl.
– MOHICAN a person having a Mohican hairstyle (the head is shaved except for a strip of hair running centrally from the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck) …1985
– MOP-HEAD a person with a rough, thick, unkempt head of hair, resembling a mop …a1816
– MOP TOP 1. a youth or a young man who wears his hair in a fringed style popularized by the Beatles in the early 1960s …1964 Brit. sl.
2. a person with a thick head of hair …1990s US sl.
– MORENA †* a woman with dark-coloured hair; a brunette …1662
– MOULDY-HEAD one whose hair has grown grey in patches …1895 Eng. dial.
– NAPPY-HEAD (sometimes derogatory) someone with kinky hair; a Black person …1943 Amer. dial.
– NATTY a wearer of dreadlocks, esp. a Rastafarian …1976 Jamaica sl.
– RED a red-headed person, esp. as a nickname or direct address …L19 sl.
– SANDY anyone with sandy hair …Bk1958 Eng. sl. 
– SANDY PATE a person having light or red hair …a1700
– SCALDY a bald-headed or very short-haired person; hence, a baby …1896 Irish sl. 
– SHAVELING * a person with a shaved head …E17
– SILVER-WIG a grey-haired man …1923 sl.
– SKINHEAD a boy with a crew haircut …Bk1942 US sl.
– SNOW a blond-haired weakling …1960s Aust. school sl.
– SORREL-TOP a red-haired person …1863 US
– SPANIEL a woman who wears her hair in a long bob, suggesting a spaniel’s ears …Bk1962 Amer. beauticians’ sl.
– STYLIE a White person wearing traditionally Black dreadlocks …1980s sl.
– SUICIDE BLONDE a woman with hair dyed blonde, esp. rather inexpertly or garishly …1942 jocular
– TRICHOTOMIST a hair-cutter …1875 nonce-word
– ULOTRICHAN a person belonging to the crisp-haired division of mankind …1888
– VANILLA ICE-CREAM a bottled blonde …Bk1972 homosexual sl.
– WALLIE † a youth whose hair has a patent-leather lustre; a ladies’ man; a gigolo …c1920 Amer. sl.
– ZIPPERHEAD one who parts his hair down the middle of his head …1988 U S college sl.
hair – verbs
– AFRO to grow one’s hair into an Afro hairstyle …1970s orig. US
– AXLE-GREASE to grease one’s hair down …1968 Amer. dial.
– BALL to put up one’s hair in a bun …1966 Amer. dial.
– BALL UP to put up one’s hair in a bun …1966 Amer. dial.
– BALTER † of hair: to tangle, to ‘mat’ …1693 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– CALAMISTRATE †* to curl, crisp, or frizzle the hair …1621
– CONK to straighten curly hair …1944 sl., orig. US Black usage
– CROOK †* to curl hair …1340
– DECURTATE † to shave, to trim the hair …1599
– FAKE to dress the hair; to make up the face or dress up …1797 sl.
– FAKE UP to dress the hair; to make up or dress up …1885 sl.
– FALL DOWNSTAIRS to get a haircut …1950 Amer. sl.
– FALL DOWN THE STEPS to get a haircut …1980 Amer. dial.
– FLINK to comb the hair …1866 Eng. dial. 
​- FLUMMOX to titivate one’s hair …M19 US sl.
– FRY to straighten curly hair …1968 US Black sl.
– FURL † to twist or curl hair …1606
– GET ONE’S EARS LOWERED to get a haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– GET ONE’S EARS SET BACK to get a haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– GET ONE’S EARS SET DOWN to get a haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– GET ONE’S EARS SET OUT to get a haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– GOOP to smear with something sticky; esp. to apply an oily or greasy preparation to the hair …1965 Amer. dial.
– GET YOUR EARS RAISED to have your hair cut …1954 US sl.
– GIVE UP ONE’S FIDDLE to get one’s hair cut …1950 Amer. dial.
– HAVE ONE’S STRUMMEL FAKED IN TWIG to have it dressed in style (strummel – hair) …1834 sl.
– INANULATE †* to curl, to form ringlets …1592
– KEMB † to disentangle and smooth hair by drawing a comb through it; to curry a horse …c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– KHYFER to dress one’s hair …L19 sl.
– KONK to straighten curly hair …1944 sl., orig. US Black usage
– KYPHER to dress one’s hair …L19 sl.
– LASH vb. to comb the hair …1863 Eng. dial.
– LUG THE HAIR to pull the hair …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOP THE HAIR to wash the hair …1952 Amer. dial.
– MOW THE LAWN to cut one’s hair …1930s US Black sl.
– MUBBLE-SQUIBBLE to tease a smaller person (male) by running one’s knuckles heavily through the victim’s hair in order to make the hair ‘pull’ and hurt …1946 Amer. dial.
– PEAL to lose the hair …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– RACK to comb the hair …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RADDLE to ruffle or rub up the hair …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RAVEL of hair: to displace, to dishevel …1895 Sc.
– REDD to dress or comb the hair …1721 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
– REDD THE TOPPIN to pull the hair …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– ROACH to comb the hair so that it stays fixed …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SHAMP to trim hair …1913 Amer. dial.
– SHINGLE to cut; to clip hair …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– STRUBBLE to put the hair in disorder…1916 Amer. dial.
– TONSE † to cut the hair of …1555
– TONSURE to clip or shave the hair of …1793
– TOP † to cut off the hair of the head …c1330
– WOOL to pull the hair of, to drag around by the hair; to beat, to get the better of …1843 Amer. dial.
– ZUG UP to cut a man’s or boy’s hair in an amateurish, raggedy manner …20C W. Indies
hair – phrases
– CARPET AND DRAPES THAT MATCH applied to a person, usually a woman, whose hair is neither bleached nor dyed …1999 US sl.
– GROWING ONE’S FEATHERS letting one’s hair and beard grow …c1870 prison sl.
– HAIR LIKE A BUSH PIG’S ARSE wild, unkempt hair …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– MATCHING CARPET AND DRAPES applied to a person, usually a woman, whose hair is neither bleached nor dyed …1999 US sl.
 
HAIR CURLER – nouns
– CRACKERS hair curlers …20C Cockneys’ sl. ​
 
HAIR CUT – nouns
– APACHE a type of men’s haircut; a Mohawk …1950 Amer. dial.
– BALDY a haircut, typically given to military recruits, in which the hair is clipped as short as possible; a shaved or bald head …1941 US sl.
– BASIN CROP a close haircut …World War II Amer. sl.
– BAZZER a haircut …2000s Irish sl.
– B.B.B. CROP a very short haircut (Bad Borstal Boy) …1940s UK prison sl.
– BONEHEAD an extreme skinhead haircut …1981 UK sl.
– BRUSH a crew-cut …1965 Amer. dial.
– BRUSH CUT. a crew-cut …1965 Amer. dial.
– BULLDOG a kind of men’s haircut – it stands straight  up all over about an inch long …1967 Amer. dial.
– BURR a man’s very short haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– BURRHEAD a man’s very short haircut …1965 Amer. dial.
– BUTCH a haircut in which the hair is clipped very short …1949 US colloq.
– BUZZ a close haircut given with electric clippers …1977 Amer. sl.
– CAESAR a type of men’s haircut; it resembles the hairstyle seen on typical busts of Julius Caesar …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– CALABASH CUT a haircut in which the hair is cut on a line equidistant from the top of the head …1990 Trinidad and Tobago
– CAMEO a type of haircut popular among young Black males; the hair is trimmed short on the side and flat or angular on top …20C teen & high school sl.
– CAMEO CUT a short-cropped Black haircut, pioneered by the hip-hop culture …1980s US Black sl.
– CHESTNUT BURR a man’s very short haircut …1965 Amer. dial.
– CHILI-BOWL a haircut that leaves the hair too short and untapered, as if the barber had placed a bowl over the head and shaved around it …20C Amer. sl.
– CHOPTOP a crew-cut haircut …1959 US sl.
– COUNTY CROP a rough haircut, shorn to equal length all round the scalp …M19 sl.
– CROCK CUT a haircut which gives the appearance of having been achieved by placing a bowl over the subject’s head …1947 US sl.
– DARK SHADOW a tightly-cropped hair cut that stops short of absolute baldness …1999 UK sl.
– DUNNY-BRUSH a flat-top haircut …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– EDGE-UP a haircut which neatens the lines without changing the style; a trim …1970 Amer. dial.
– ENGLISH a style of men’s haircut: the hair rides back from the temples, rests comfortably on top of the ears, and keeps moving to the rear, like Laurence Olivier’s …1957 Amer. dial.
– FARMER’S HAIRCUT a closely trimmed cut which leaves a band of light skin contrasting with the tanned portions of neck and face, especially above the ears …1984 Amer. dial.
– FLAT-TOP a man’s short flat haircut …1956 sl.
– GRASS a crew haircut …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– GUMBY a slanted box haircut …1980s Amer. teen sl.
– HAIR RAID a crew haircut …Bk1947 Amer. sl.
– HALF-CUT a man’s haircut, thin on the edges, thick on top …1968 Amer. dial.
– HEINIE a very short haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– HINEY a very short haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– IROQUOIS a Mohawk haircut …1968 Amer. dial.
– MOHAWK a haircut in which the head is shaved except for a strip of hair running down the centre of the scalp …1950 Amer. dial.
– MOHICAN a haircut in which the head is shaved except for a strip of hair running down the centre of the scalp …1965 Amer. dial.
– NANA CUT a haircut in which the back of the head is closely shaved …1940s Aust. sl.
– NEW YORKER a style of haircut; the top was a brush cut, the rest long and combed into a ‘duck’s ass’ …1966 Amer. dial.
– PIG SHAVE a crew-cut or other very short haircut …1950 Amer. dial.
– PINEAPPLE a close haircut, short all over …1908 Amer. dial.
– PINEAPPLE CLIP a close haircut, short all over …1967 Amer. dial.
– PINEAPPLE SHAVE a close haircut, short all over …1967 Amer. dial.
– RAT BACK CLIP a short haircut …M19 sl.
– SAB a haircut in which the back of the hair is rounded rather than tapered …1950s W. Indies
– SCALPING a short haircut …Brit. sl.
– SHORT BACK AND SIDES a short haircut …colloq.
– SKINNY a haircut in which all of the hair is cut off or shaved …1970 Amer, dial., chiefly Black usage
– TEDDY a type of men’s haircut similar to a crew cut; short hair combed straight back …1943 Amer. dial.
– TEDDY-BEAR a type of men’s haircut similar to a crew cut; short hair combed straight back …1943 Amer. dial.
– TEDDY-BEAR CUT. a type of men’s haircut similar to a crew cut; short hair combed straight back …1943 Amer. dial.
– VICTORY a style of haircut that gave a man’s hair a V-shape at the back …1940s W. Indies sl.
– WHIFFLE a crew cut …1942 Amer. dial.
– WHIFFLER a crew cut …1965 Amer. dial.
– WHIPPLE a crew cut …1965 Amer. dial.
– WHITE SIDEWALLS the visible scalp on the side of the head after a short haircut, esp. a military haircut …1968 US sl.
hair cut – person
– CUE BALLS boys with G.I. haircuts …Bk1947 US Army sl.
– NATURE BOY a boy in need of a haircut …1955 US sl.
hair cut – verbs 
– BUTCHER to give an extremely close haircut to …1942 US military sl.
 
HAIRDRESSER – nouns
– GREASE PARLOR a hairdresser’s; a beauty parlour …1940s US Black sl.
hairdresser – person
– COODER a hairdresser …2003 UK homosexual sl.
– CRIMPER a hairdresser …1968 Brit. sl.
– HAIR BENDER 1. a homosexual male hairdresser …1964 US homosexual sl.
2. a hair stylist …1964 US sl.
– HAIRBURGER a homosexual male hairdresser …M20 US homosexual sl. ​
– HAIRBURNER 1. a homosexual male hairdresser …1960s US homosexual sl.
2. a hair stylist …1964 US sl.
– HAIRCRANKER a hairdresser; a beautician …1960s homosexual sl. 
– HAIR-KAIMER a hairdresser …1773 Sc.
– HAIR WARDEN the camp hairstylist …1940s US WACs sl.
– HEAD-DRESSER * a person who dresses hair or provides attire for the head; a hairdresser, a milliner, etc. …1697 hist.
– HELEN HAIRBURNER a homosexual hairdresser …Bk1972 homosexual sl. 
 
HAIRDRESSING – nouns
– BARBING † shaving, hairdressing; clipping …1485
– TOILET †* a towel or cloth thrown over the shoulders during hairdressing; also, a shawl …1684
 
HAIR-NET – nouns
– KELL † a woman’s hair-net, cap, or head-dress …a1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
HAIR OIL – nouns
– SALAD OIL hair oil …1910s sl.
 
HAIRPIECE – see WIG
 
HAIRPIN – nouns
– HAIR-NEEDLE † a hairpin …B1900
 
HAIR PRODUCT – nouns
– AXLE GREASE any particularly thick and sticky hair pomade …1943 Aust. sl.
– HAIR-SIT a scented mucilaginous preparation for keeping the hair in place …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– POND SKUM grease on hair …Bk1998 teen sl.
– SLICKUM hair oil …20C US sl.
 
HAIR-SPLITTING – adjectives
– HAIR-SLITTING † hair-splitting; making over-nice distinctions …1683
hair-splitting – verbs 
– DIVIDE THE HAIR to make fine or cavilling distinctions; to ‘split hairs’ …1652 
 
HAIRY – adjectives
– BOOZY bushy, hairy …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOUSY hairy …Bk1911 Sc.
– BOWSIE bushy, hairy …Bk1911 Sc.
– FASH hairy …1877 Eng. dial.
– FAXED † having hair, hairy …891
– HEATHERY rough, dishevelled, hairy …1825 Sc. 
– MOSSY hairy …19C colloq.
– OOZLING hairy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SCAGGED † shaggy, hairy …1777 Eng. dial.
– SCAGGY shaggy, hairy …1777 Eng. dial.
hairy – nouns 
– CAPILLATION †* the state or condition of being hairy or hair-like …1646
hairy – person 
– CAVE MAN a strong, virile man, esp. one bearing much body hair or body hair in unusual places …L19 sl.
– HAIRY a long-haired, bearded individual …1976 UK sl.
– OOBIT a ragged, shaggy, or unkempt, hairy person; an uncouth sort of person; an ill-behaved youngster; an insignificant rascal …1856 Sc.
– WOOKIE a hairy or slovenly person …Bk2006 Amer. college & university sl.