haircutnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈheə.kʌt/us/ˈher.kʌt/haircut noun [ C ] (HAIR)
B1 the style in which someone's hair is cut, or an occasion of cutting the hair:
She has a really awful haircut.
I wish he'd get/have a haircut.
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Hairstyles
- barnet
- blowout
- bob
- bun
- bunch
- close-cropped
- coiffed
- comb-over
- cornrow
- crew cut
- fauxhawk
- flattop
- fringe
- loose
- pageboy
- permanent wave
- pigtail
- ponytail
- quiff
- shake
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haircut noun [ C ] (MONEY)
specialized finance & economics a reduction in an amount of money, such as the price of a share or bond:
The crisis means that lenders will have to take a haircut (= accept that they have lost money because the value of the investment has gone down).
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Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- dive
- drain
- let sth down
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- minimize
- shrink
- slash
- step sth down
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
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