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It may be put on the spot
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toupee
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man. 2 (context obsolete English) A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair. 3 (context obsolete English) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
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'Toupee ' is a song written by Colin Lane and Frank Woodley of the successful Australian comedy duo Lano and Woodley . The song is about a man who owns a toupee , and who is describing all the things he is able to use it for. Some of the uses include a ...
Usage examples of toupee.
Pentagon, in the beflagged office of the omnipotent Secretary of Defense, a tiny man with a pinched face and a slightly askew toupee sat on three cushions behind an enormous desk and virtually spat into his telephone.
Trixie was evicted, the cups were laid aside, Mister Snaith reversed his cloak and straightened his toupee.
Theodore Soars-With-Eagles in his tepee, his warbonnet and toupee askew.
Both full wigs and hairpieces, neatly separated into toupees and falls, lined one wall, each hanging on special cotton-covered wire.
A toupee, don't y' know, is the sartorial sine qua non of every middle-aged Beau Brummel afflicted with baldness.
She dearly hoped she wouldn't hear a passing remark about rodeo clowns or lounge lizards in glistening black toupees.
Oh, yes, and unleash with a fury a plague of locusts to nest in the toupee of the Senate Minority Leader from the great state of Mississippi.
Oh, she was glad to be back in Havana, holding Fidel's hand as a fussy gringo tried to restore the illusion of vitality—gluing on the frizzy beard, aligning a new toupee, ruddying the cheeks, powdering the shadows around the hollowing eyes.
A large trunk in one corner, which he unlocked with his own key, revealed a selection of expensive cameras and flash equipment, besides a host of facial props including hair tints and dyes, toupees, wigs, spectacles in great variety and a case of theatrical cosmetics.
Wigs, women's underwear, toupees and anything else that was small and soft were stuffed into the crevices between the limbs.
Hogg looked around, seeing John the Spaniard and the three Albanian waiters from the Sweet Thames Run Softly bar downstairs all looking terrible in coarse golliwog toupees that were meant to be a kind of homage, so Hogg understood, to an enviable aspect of youth typified by these blasphemous obscenities -- namely, a riotous and sickening excess of head-hair.
Furthermore, neither of them had had a customer in many weeks who had wanted a red wig, or who was in the habit of using wigs or toupees of various colors.