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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
backcomb .
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Examples
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A woman struts past me in a green mini-dress, hair backcombed into a beehive.
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A free-entry Sunday session, this new weekend wind-down will also host guest decks sessions from various East End faces, who'll be playing songs that owe a serious debt to all those wonderful women in matching sequinned evening gowns and backcombed bouffants.
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Someone had backcombed her wispy blonde hair into fierce dreads, but she rocked her locks like a Rasta woman.
The Exorsistah: X Returns Claudia Mair Burney 2010
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My sister Bridie used to be kneel on the bed so she could see herself in the dressing-table mirror as she backcombed her hair and got herself ready to go out.
The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010
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Both, she saw, had backcombed their hair and were wearing make-up and lipstick.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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Both, she saw, had backcombed their hair and were wearing make-up and lipstick.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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There are patches of sandy winter grass backcombed toward Dunkery Beacon.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Both, she saw, had backcombed their hair and were wearing make-up and lipstick.
Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009
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She must have backcombed and used a case of hair spray.
What Would Emma Do? Eileen Cook 2008
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Hair by Kenneth—teased, swirled, backcombed and ringleted.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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