close-cropped
Americanadjective
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clipped or trimmed short.
close-cropped hair.
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having one's hair clipped or trimmed short.
a close-cropped wrestler.
Etymology
Origin of close-cropped
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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On TV, at town halls and universities, the bespectacled officer, with close-cropped gray hair and an almost professorial demeanor, lays out the stakes for his countrymen.
Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”
From Literature
She ran her hand through her close-cropped hair and looked away.
From Literature
He had the straight spine of a dancer but wore ordinary clothes and a tool belt, and his close-cropped beard was shot with gray.
From Literature
Day-Lewis, now 68 and whose last film was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” seems carved out of stone as Ray, his close-cropped hair and imposing gray goatee suggesting a man who doesn’t just live off the grid but thrives there.
From Los Angeles Times
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