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- noun Cockney rhyming slang
hair (on one's head)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Percy the Peacock's luxuriantly highlighted and coiffured barnet is his pride and joy.
Because You`re Worth It ... Newmania 2007
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Percy the Peacock's luxuriantly highlighted and coiffured barnet is his pride and joy.
Archive 2007-10-14 Newmania 2007
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I do wonder whether her barnet was a particularly cruel situationist prank.
Ugliest Woman in Politics (more entrants ) Newmania 2007
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It was bad enough when he had slicked-back lustrous locks – that at least gave him the comic-villainous tinge of The Count from Sesame Street – but now he's got that six-year-old-gives-Barbie-a-haircut barnet, the fellow is positively haunting.
Why Sir Alex Ferguson's rejects are tickled pink to be leaving | Harry Pearson 2012
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That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up Chalk Farm Road under a back-combed barnet, the lips that I'd only seen clenching a fishwife fag and dribbling curses now a portal for this holy sound.
Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman' 2011
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The camera cuts to the dug-out where Sir Alex Ferguson looks most unimpressed.33 min: Sean Scannell, who boasts a similar barnet to Steven Pienaar he used to be quite a promising footballer, goes down injured after a collision with Antonio Valencia, allowing Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman to summon a few of his charges to the touchline to issue some instructions.
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As a result, many people end up protecting theirs, risking the sacred item or ritual only when they feel confident of success – and it becomes impossible to tell whether the scarlet barnet, white shoes or meal of chips and chocolate sauce "because the day I mistook it for the HP we beat Man U 3-1" is a boost to the sportsman's or woman's self‑confidence or simply a symbol of it.
The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson 2011
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Oh, I could hit my head, and then for good measure, Melvyn Bragg's head too, lustrous barnet and all, against a brick wall.
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Frank RileyHexham, Northumberland• Now that Donald Trump has made Obama reveal his full birth certificate Report, 28 April, perhaps he could furnish evidence of the provenance of his own barnet.
Letters: Trump cards 2011
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LNV, I am assuming that you are highlighting the difference between a tram ROW on guildford verus barnet.
Province pushes Evergreen Line ‘aggressively’ « Stephen Rees's blog 2010
chained_bear commented on the word barnet
Warwick the Kingmaker was killed at the battle of Barnet in 1471. (useless fact for your perusal) (It wasn't a part of London at the time.)
October 1, 2008
wordwench commented on the word barnet
It's additionally the site of an ancient and well known horse fair, and thus, 'Barnet' is also cockney rhyming slang for hair.
even more uselessly beguiling trivia
October 1, 2008