forelock
IPA: fˈɔrɫɑk
noun
- The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
- The part of a horse's (or similar animal's) mane that lies on its forehead.
- A wedge pushed through a hole at the end of a bolt to hold it in place.
verb
- To fix in place with a forelock (wedge)
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Examples of "forelock" in Sentences
- I have also dyed my hair deep blue with a pink forelock and magenta highlights.
- So beautiful and majestic, with his forelock draped in his face, he really fit the part.
- That one lasted for 4 months, and in the end all I had was a cotton candy pink forelock.
- Instead of asking how it is that we all have to kiss the forelock of the Windsor family...
- This kind of forelock-tugging to the monarchy disappeared from the real world 40 years ago or more.
- There were about five people in different departments who, because of my forelock, ended up in tears.
- We all agreed the war in Vietnam was wrong and the forelock tugging tendency of the British needed to end.
- Nicholas's ID photo from the Saigon embassy shows a young man with a Superman forelock, fixing the camera with a challenging stare.
- A lot of kneeling, kowtowing and forelock-tugging ensued -- and a public scolding of one of the Star's best journos and columnists by the "public editor."
- But otherwise very little, jokes or otherwise, that we hadn't heard before, and a preponderance of what blogger Julian Dobson has called "pointless forelock-tugging to the Taxpayers 'Alliance".
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