单词 | slaphead |
释义 | slapheadn. slang (originally and chiefly British). humorous or depreciative. A bald or shaven-headed person; a bald or shaven head. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [noun] > state of having no > person having no callowc1300 ballarda1382 pilgarlica1529 bald-head1535 bald-pate1601 smooth-patea1616 alopic1623 bald-coot1823 baldy1863 bladder of lard1864 skinhead1945 slaphead1990 1986 Today 3 Nov. 11/1 If you're puzzled by the title of the Grange Hill cast's latest single—take heart, so are the originators of the slang. Ask The Teacher (Smash Head) should be Ask The Teacher (Slap Head) say the third and fourth formers in Milton Keynes who coined the phrase to describe the flat-top haircuts sported by trendy teachers.] 1990 Guardian 24 Mar. (Weekend Suppl.) 9/4 Now you hear euphemistically about third-stagers and sunset people, or less sweetly, about slapheads and—huddled before the hearth—the old and the cold. 1991 Gazette (Montreal) 16 July f2/1 The current rage in London, Paris, Berlin and New York is the Slaphead look... A Slaphead is someone (and there are no gender-based limitations here) who is bald either by nature or by choice—yes, by choice! 1992 P. Baikie et al. Absolutely 74 I've turned into a bit of a slaphead. 2001 Independent 7 Mar. ii. 3/1 An irascible young populist with a slaphead. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1990 |
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