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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crew cut
noun
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▪ An elderly colonel with a steel gray crew cut stood to one side, ready to intervene if the questioning got difficult.
▪ Despite his militant crew cut, Bellows looks stylishly moody and vulnerable, and Sheridan could pass for a vanilla float.
▪ Haldeman is the one with the square head and crew cut, right?
▪ He also had a fresh crew cut, which added to the un-real appearance of the scene.
▪ He sported the same crew cut he wore during his playing days.
▪ He was a stocky boy of middle height, with blue eyes, a bristling crew cut, and red cheeks.
▪ His hair was fair and it had been curly before he'd had it given a crew cut.
Wiktionary
crew cut

n. A closely-cropped male haircut in which the hairs stick upward, like the short bristles of a brush.

WordNet
crew cut

n. a closely cropped haircut; usually for men [syn: flattop]

Wikipedia
Crew cut

A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the upright hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short, graduated in length from the longest hair that forms a short pomp ( pompadour) at the front hairline to the shortest at the back of the crown so that in side profile, the outline of the top hair approaches the horizontal. Relative to the front view, and to varying degrees, the outline of the top hair can be arched or flattened at the short pomp front and rounded or flattened over the rest of the top to complement the front hairline, head shape, face shape and facial features. The hair on the sides and back of the head is usually tapered short, semi-short, or medium.

A short crew cut is sometimes referred to as a butch, though with the exception of variant forms, a butch differs from a crew cut in that the top hair is cut a uniform short length. A long crew cut can be referred to in the US as an ivy league crew cut or ivy league. A crew cut where the hair on the top of the head is graduated in length from the front hairline to a chosen point on the mid to back part of the crown as a flat plane, of level, upward sloping or downward sloping inclination is known as a flat top crew cut or flattop. Crew cuts, flattop crew cuts, butch cuts and ivy leagues can be referred to as buzz cuts; all are traditionally groomed with hair control wax, commonly referred to as butch wax.

Usage examples of "crew cut".

Stafford cut a commanding figure, standing as erect as his silvery crew cut, with his fists leaning firmly on the back of an empty chair at the end of the conference table.

Framed snapshot of a little boy with a crew cut, wearing overalls, struggling to carry a crying baby with flame-red hair, a funeral mass card for Heath Allen Weaver tucked into the corner.

He felt a sudden surge of loss superimposed upon the memory of a seven-year-old boy, blue T-shirt and crew cut, running full tilt from the house and throwing himself into his father's arms.