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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of backcomb.

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Examples

  • A woman struts past me in a green mini-dress, hair backcombed into a beehive.

    Endeavour: an inspector recalled 2012

  • 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.

    This week's new clubs 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • Both, she saw, had backcombed their hair and were wearing make-up and lipstick.

    Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

  • Both, she saw, had backcombed their hair and were wearing make-up and lipstick.

    Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

  • There are patches of sandy winter grass backcombed toward Dunkery Beacon.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • Both, she saw, had backcombed their hair and were wearing make-up and lipstick.

    Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

  • She must have backcombed and used a case of hair spray.

    What Would Emma Do? Eileen Cook 2008

  • Hair by Kenneth—teased, swirled, backcombed and ringleted.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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