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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hairdo
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Did she have a new hairdo?
▪ Her ambitious hairdo curved and swirled like a Henry Moore sculpture.
▪ I landed between two women in their sixties with nearly identical hairdos.
▪ Many films of my youth were viewed on either side of bouffant and beehive hairdos which filled the centre of the screen.
▪ Minitel is a creature of the 80s and now seems as dated as mullet hairdos and Bananarama.
▪ The ladies have hairdos, trendies have cuts.
▪ With her bouffant hairdo, elaborate plumage, gushing charm and bright smile she is a caricature of a countess.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hairdo

also hair-do, 1932, from hair + do (v.). Phrase do (one's) hair attested from 1875.

Wiktionary
hairdo

n. 1 A hairstyle. 2 A haircut.

WordNet
hairdo

n. the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) [syn: hair style, coiffure]

Wikipedia
Hairdo (song)

"Hairdo" is the second single released from Little Birdy's third album, Confetti. It was released on 28 July 2009.

The video was filmed in a warehouse at Melbourne's Docklands and was directed by D'Arcy Foley-Dawson.

Usage examples of "hairdo".

Some ineffectual snorting sounds came from their master, a middle-aged man with a basin-cut hairdo and a face like a cliffside, who apparently thought he was controlling his charges when finally one lay and the other sat tensely, both with snarls locked in their throats, the bullterrier with teeth bared at a calico cat a youngish couple had wedged between them.

They even kept their hair in the same short hairdo, per medin tight little brown curls, and always went to the beauty shop on the same day.

Meg was what the young folk called rab, and the hairdo this time was what his generation called amazing, shaved bare up the sides, red as fire atop, a mass of curls trailing down her neck and all these bangles on her ears.

This woman had come in to book a hairdo, manicure, a facial, the works, and said she was going to a drop-dead-cert smart christening party on Saturday, and she had actually said there were going to be fancy caterers at it.

I threw myself on the mercy of Esmerelda, a black librarian of somewhere between ninety and a hundred who contained within her bionic hairdo all knowledge, or the ability to find it.

She went to Harrods quickly then, and bought more dresses in less time than she had ever done in her life, got her hair done nearby, and took a cab back to the hotel, laden with hatboxes and dresses, and her new hairdo.

Hungarian and bossy, a creature of muumuus and dyed auburn tresses, which she wears parted down the center and plastered into place with sprays that have sat on the grocery-store shelves since the beehive hairdo bumbled out of fashion in 1966.

Floyt asked as Terran notables straightened their sashes and primped their hairdos, cleared their throats and wiped sweat from their palms.

They discussed the latest permutations of the hairdo fashions while the blind shampooers plied their trade.

It was all long-finned cars, and waitresses on roller skates and beehive hairdos.

Moscow, from the open vodka bottles and sad little beet salads to the bouffant hairdos and color-clashing beaded dresses of the heavyset women.

Tenderly, in every sense, he monitored their facelifts and breast-implants, their tattoos, pubic hairdos, the bodies in question increasingly encrusted with cellulite and jewelry, chokers, anklets, bracelets, nipple-rings, navel-studs, tongue-claspsheavy brooches, carbuncles, pierced into the tongue.

I see those guys on the TV, those shiny shits, two-hundred dollar hairdos, smooth as a baby's ass, and then you hear all this shit, congressmen humping the page boys in the bathrooms, that big chairman of some shit or other--guy's taking cash for stamps, for Chrissakes, fucking stamps!

She's in her sixties, Hungarian and bossy, a creature of muumuus and dyed auburn tresses, which she wears parted down the center and plastered into place with sprays that have sat on the grocery-store shelves since the beehive hairdo bumbled out of fashion in 1966.

There were Suzl and Nadya, two girls who crushed Cassie's old belief -- or hope -- that the pretty and sexy ones would be nothing without hairdos, makeup, and careful dressing, and Canty and Ivon, one a short, squat boy with a mischievous streak, the other built like a bull.