baby hair
noun
plural baby hairs
: short fine hair that grows along a person's hairline
Many women of color with natural hair and coarser coils use a styling gel pomade to slick down their unruly baby hairs since that hair is usually a softer texture and shorter than the rest.
Maya Allen
Maya AllenHer long brunette locks had been pulled back in a sleek high ponytail, with a few baby hairs coming loose near her temples. Ava Bennet
Ava Bennet… using toothbrushes or oversize boar bristle brushes for styling baby hair. Tembe Denton-Hurst
Tembe Denton-Hurst
Word History
First Known Use
1976, in the meaning defined above
- in sunder
- in support of
- in surgery
- in suspense
- in sync
- in synchrony with
- in syndication
- in tandem
- in tatters
- in tears
- in tempo
- in terminal decline
- in terms of
- in that
- in that case
- in that regard
- in that/this regard
- in the (first) flush of
- in the absence of
- in the abstract
- in the act
- in the act (of doing something)
- in the act of doing something
- in the affirmative
- in the aggregate