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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
longhair

also long-hair, "cat with long hair," 1893, from long (adj.) + hair. As "intellectual," especially in musical tastes, "devotee of classical music," 1920. Sense of "hippie" attested from 1969.

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longhair

a. (context derogatory music English) Concerning or characteristic of classical music. n. 1 A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie. 2 A person with a deep interest in the classical arts, especially music. 3 A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts. 4 A cat with hair longer than the norm.

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Longhair (disambiguation)

Longhair, or long hair, is a hairstyle, or a person with such a hairstyle. It may also refer to:

Usage examples of "longhair".

Revenge, Hector went off mooning about his ex-wife Debbi, who during the divorce proceedings, on the advice of some drug-taking longhair crank attorney, had named the television set, a 19-inch French Provincial floor model, as corespondent, arguing that the Tube was a member of the household, enjoying its own space, fed out of the house budget with all the electricity it needed, addressed and indeed chatted with at length by other family members, certainly as able to steal affection as any cheap floozy Hector might have met on the job.

She had strolled only a short distance along the streamside lane when she met a Manxwoman leading a longhaired, sharp-horned brown goat.

Also, of course, her guests consisted entirely of a multitude of my own heavenly host: large and small, longhaired and shorthaired, young and old, fat and thin, yapping and silent dogs.

As if to accentuate the collegiate atmosphere, two longhaired hippies hurled a Frisbee back and forth while enjoying Mahler's Fourth Symphony blaring from a dorm window.

The guard said he wouldn't be surprised to find out that the longhaired comsymp pervos had done it by putting something into the water.

Succulent grasses fringed it, and longhaired casuarinas, and azure jacarandas whose fallen flowers, like broken pieces of sky, were drifting in the current.

Cal is astonished that the makeup of the crowd is so different from what it would have been only two years ago, when nearly every longhair, Jesus freak, and raving peacenik in the land would have converged on Denver to tell Speero the Heero where to stick it and why.

Those cruddy longhairs will look at what happened, and they’ll work on it, and they’ll work on it.

The Organization can pay Confederation longhairs to grow us all new bodies from scratch, something like that.

If we leave, then the Confederation longhairs are going to be free to dream up some way of snatching us back.

Yesterday you were telling me how nothing the longhairs dream up could ever touch us if we take New California out of here.

And the Confederation longhairs ain’t gonna risk bringing them back until they’ve found a way of giving us new bodies, or something.

This lawsuit had severe repercussions in Aspen: The mayor was shackled, the City Council lost its will to live, the City Magistrate, Guido Meyer, was fired instantly -- even before the Police Chief -- and the local cops suddenly stopped busting longhairs for the things like "blocking the sidewalk," which carried a 90-day jail sentence that summer, along with a $200 fine.

It was the first open break between the Greasers and the Longhairs, and the importance of that break can be read in the history of SDS, which eventually destroyed in the doomed effort to reconcile the interests of the 'working class biker/dropout types and the upper/mid Berkeley/student activists.

Even when there had been political pressures to arrange something that would grab headlines and squash longhairs for a while, Kyril Montana had played it cool, had kept maneuvering through the drug subculture hoping to nail the hard-drug pushers and suppliers, and he had usually managed to keep his superiors off his back until he finally had one of the big fish, until he finally had tiptoed through the smack or cocaine hierarchy to a source.