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- noun A manner of combing hair to attempt to conceal a
bald spot.
Etymologies
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Examples
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(practiced by guys who have developed a totally clear landing strip down their dome but are still in serious denial thus they weave the few pathetic strands from the sides of the road and which are now six feet long artfully into a poor imitation of a combover which is really quite amusing should you be so lucky as to be near them on a windy day.)
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Nixon re-emerged, beating perhaps the only two Democrats with weaker hair: Hubert Humphrey, whose receding hairline was made worse by a round face and prominent, barren forehead; and George McGovern, whose heart was in the right place but whose head was burdened with a horrid combover.
Why 2012 Will Be Decided by a Hair Peter Funt 2011
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But Farrell, as the dumbest of the three bosses, is treated as a sight gag the combover, rather than a character.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Horrible Bosses Marshall Fine 2011
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Ghouliani and his LISP and too funny! add the bad combover and we have a clown!
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And Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) manages a chemical plant for a great boss (Donald Sutherland), but winds up working for the boss' drug-addled son (Colin Farrell in a hilarious combover) when the boss drops dead.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Horrible Bosses Marshall Fine 2011
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The weird combover thing from New Moon has changed.
Twilight Lexicon » Official Eclipse Website Updates With Cast Photos 2010
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"I reckon Stephen Rice above is a shoo-in to join the bald community very soon, whereas Tom Carroll has made the schoolboy error of going for a Bobby Charltonesque combover years before he needs it," says Gary Naylor.
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•On the Truant Planet, no balding people will be allowed to do a combover.
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It's long been a mystery, how Trump manages to create the unique coif that is half combover, half Davy Crockett cap.
Donald Trump's Hair Care Secret Revealed In Rolling Stone Interview 2011
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I REFUSE to look like some Bobby Charlton throwback with a combover.
And for my next trick……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
sionnach commented on the word combover
A combover is a hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area to minimize the display of baldness.
A variation of the combover (whereby baldness is concealed by long hairs combed in three separate directions) has a U.S. Patent 4,022,227 by Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, who were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering for their effort.
December 28, 2007
john commented on the word combover
The most punk rock haircut ever: the fake combover. When someone with a full head of hair shaves the top of their head, tonsure-style, then sports a combover to cover their self-inflicted baldness.
December 28, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word combover
A great way to get women
to be "just friends".
December 30, 2007