wig
IPA: wˈɪg
noun
- A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
- A bigwig
- (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.
verb
- To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
- (intransitive, colloquial, slang) To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot in the head.
adjective
- (aviation, nautical) Initialism of wing-in-ground.
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Examples of "wig" in Sentences
- They should have had her in a wig from the beginning.
- My wig is askew, I can feel it, so I try to tug at it without her seeing.
- Check out the video clip … at least the Gosselin wig is a funny sight gag.
- Brandy Navarre, X17: Viva Vesgo, the guy in the pink wig, is the Jay Leno of Brazil.
- Now, the wig is being sent to another woman who will be receiving breast-cancer treatments.
- From the pictures that I saw last week, the wig is also a lot shorter than her hair in New moon which is a shame.
- Of course, she probably made her co-star Taylor Lautner feel more at home considering his wearing a wig is nothing out of the ordinary.
- We may therefore suppose this wig [_shews a large wig_] to be a huge quarto in large paper; this is a duodecimo in small print [_takes the knowing head_]; and this a jockey's head, sweated down to ride a sweepstakes.
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