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backcomb

vb. to hold the hair away from the head and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a thicker look

Usage examples of "backcomb".

Christa would look like in stage clothes, and the thought of the gentle harper clad in leather and spandex, draped with chains, her wrists wrapped in studded bracelets and her red hair backcombed and spiked, made Melinda laugh amid the clouds of steam.

Bill could not help but notice her: her red hair had been backcombed into a fiery mane.

Her red hair, spiked and backcombed in deference to rock and roll, seemed out of place now.

The undersides of their leaves looked white, like backcombed hair, as if they were cowering from the violent rain.

Her thoughts seemed to be somewhere else as she faced a mirror and added backcombing to her hair with short, rapid strokes.

This high up, the breeze teases, rats, backcombs Helen's pink bubble of hair.