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单词 haircut
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haircutn.

Brit. /ˈhɛːkʌt/, U.S. /ˈhɛrˌkət/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hair n., cut n.2
Etymology: < hair n. + cut n.2 With sense 1b compare earlier hairstyle n.
1.
a. An act of cutting a person's hair.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > cutting or shaving > act of
haircut1848
trima1914
1848 Wheeling (W. Va.) Times & Advertiser 9 May (advt.) Gentlemen wishing a comfortable shave, a fashionable hair-cut, or the head shampooed in a scientific manner, are respectfully invited to call.
1890 Cheshire Observer 28 June 5/3 They went to have a shave and haircut, and they called at the Coach and Horses.
1932 H. V. Morton In Search of Wales iv. 67 The music-master, a dark young man who needed a hair-cut, gave out pieces of music.
1988 R. Jackson & D. Killingley Approaches to Hinduism vii. 91 When he was thirteen months old, he had his first haircut.
2017 ‘Wiley’ Eskiboy 185 Might buss a hat when my hair gets picky Then I get a haircut.
b. The style, manner, or shape in which a person's hair is cut; a hairstyle.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun]
headc1450
coiffure1633
tiff1703
cock1768
top1780
Madonna style1818
Madonna front1849
hairstyle1871
Madonna coiffure1890
haircut1895
do1918
hairdo1932
1895 Boston Sunday Post 2 June 17/7 This kind of hair cut gives me a cinch on the hayseed vote.
1987 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 1 Mar. (TV Suppl.) 9/1 Johnson..sported a new haircut when he returned—a sort of spike.
2018 S. Markley Ohio 33 She hadn't changed her haircut, still the same unflattering midwestern bowl of badly dyed brown.
c. A customer for a haircut.
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1923 Glasgow Herald 10 Feb. 8/8 Commenting upon how few of his customers in recent days had been ‘haircuts’, he remarked... ‘The change of the moon always brings more haircuts out.’
1932 J. O'Hara in New Yorker 8 Oct. 16/1 The usual rush of men who get their late shaves around noon had passed, and there were no haircuts in the shop.
2010 @frankiethemick 12 May in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2020) Last haircut of the day was an old man who fell asleep in da chair.
2. colloquial. In extended use: removal of, or damage or injury to, the top or upper part of something; spec. (a) an act of trimming a lawn, hedge, etc.; (b) damage to the upper part of a lorry, truck, or other high vehicle resulting from driving it under a low bridge.In quot. 1897: a blow to the head.
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1897 ‘F. B. Williams’ On Many Seas xlv. 398 Come on now, me hearties! Step lively there! Who's next for a hair cut?
1899 Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader 30 Aug. Grab the noisy old machine And give the lawn a hair cut.
1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 451 The artillery began giving the plantation ‘a haircut’, as the phrase borrowed from the wheatlands had it.
2013 www.cbc.ca 28 Nov. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 29 Nov. 2013) RCMP are investigating after a bridge gave a semi-trailer a haircut near Brandon.
2016 J. Wright Nat. Hist. Hedgerow (2017) xxx. 337 The ‘blue-post’ scheme..marks the herb-rich hedge banks and verges which are exempt from a haircut until autumn.
3. Finance colloquial. A reduction in the valuation of an asset, typically one made as an indication of the degree of risk associated with the asset when it has been pledged as collateral; a reduction made to the face value of a debt or an asset as part of a refinancing or winding-up operation.
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1955 A. D. Orrick Addr. Salt Lake City Nov. 30 (U.S. Securities & Exchange Comm.) 5 in www.sec.gov (typescript, accessed 7 Sept. 2020) The net capital rule applicable to broker-dealers has been tightened to provide that in computing net capital a 30% deduction from the market value of common stock commitments or inventory must be made. This so-called ‘haircut’ of 30%..establishes a more stringent standard for broker-dealer financial responsibility.
1973 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 21 June 24/3 In sympathy with commissions in some other sports, Kolton is advising some of the players to take a haircut. By this he means that institutions should consider trimming the stated value of their holdings.
1999 Forbes 22 Feb. 163/3 The bid-ask spread is typically less than 0.5%, and you can often avoid taking a haircut on that spread by placing a limit order smack in the middle.
2009 Guardian 3 Apr. 11/5 Banks and companies must also apply a haircut to any assets deemed ‘illiquid’—or difficult to shift in a hurry.
2019 A. Vercelli Finance & Democracy v. 123 By the end of 2007, the average repo haircut on structured debt had reached in the United States the significant level of 9%.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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hair-cut
hair-cut n. (also haircut) (a) an act of cutting the hair by a hairdresser; (b) the shape or style in which the hair is cut; (c) a customer for a hair-cut.
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1899 Westm. Gaz. 5 Dec. 8/1 The trade in Pretoria was kept very busy for about ten days giving the burghers a commando hair-cut.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 22 Jan. 2/3 He won mainly on his promise that he would reform the city barber into charging two dollars fifty cents for a hair-cut.
1904 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 4/7 The barbers of Bethlehem, Pa., have raised the price of haircuts from sevenpence to tenpence.
1923 Glasgow Herald 10 Feb. 8/8 Commenting upon how few of his customers in recent days had been ‘haircuts’, he remarked... ‘The change of the moon always brings more haircuts out.’
1924 R. Macaulay Orphan Island xviii. §2. 241 They were interrupted by Mr. Albert Edward Smith, who had come for a shave and a hair-cut.
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