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sideburn

Etymology 1 n. (singular of sideburns English) Etymology 2

n. (context UK smoking uncountable English) The unwanted rapid burning down one side of a cigarette that has been ineptly rolled.

WordNet
sideburn

n. beard grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off) [syn: burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers]

Usage examples of "sideburn".

He was clean shaven except for the rather unusual long sideburns that grew to the middle of his jaw.

She took his face between her hands, his long sideburns caressing her palms, and gazed deeply into his eyes.

Angela gripped his sideburns, flashing anger of her own in response to his.

Seated in the central chair and arguing with the civilian barber about the relative length of sideburns was a compactly built young soldier in Lugard green and blue.

On the other side of Nash, down the bar is some young guy with sideburns, wearing a good pin-striped suit.

And the sideburns guy grabs the gal by a handful of hair and pulls her away from his mouth.

I ask if this is because I stood within spitting distance of the young sideburns guy who died in the bar on Third Avenue.

As the pot-emptier straightened, El saw that the man was of middling years and possessed of raven-dark hair, good looks framed by razor-edged sideburns, one normal.

Of course, she thought, her eyes once again wandering to his sleeping face, once his destestable sideburns were gone he would prove devastating.

The pad of her thumb moved slowly along his jaw, back and forth, up over his beard-roughened cheek to his sideburns, then, slowly, all the way down to his chin.

Their triangular sideburns reached their jawlines, and their conical pompadours extended maybe twenty centimeters in front of their foreheads.

With their short statures, full sideburns, and clean-shaven faces, the two professors were physically similar.

There was a woman sitting in a chair, her sideburns and chin smeared with dark golden wax, and there were two beautiful young women lying naked from the waist down, having their bikini lines done.

The color of his sideburns was less red, and his beard was brown fading into gray.

And it was in the endgame that Gwyn showed his only wisps of talent: a certain Celt-Iberian canniness, a certain sideburned cunning.