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ducktail

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Hair at the back of the head shaped like a duck's tail

noun
/ˈdʌkˌteɪl/

: peinado ducktail

Combed back behind the ears in a ducktail.
ducktail at the back
combing his ducktail

I recognized him from your video last Christmas, and he had that ducktail fucking with him and he was right in front of us, man.

Examples

I wanted to drive around with my friends, or walk with them downtown, to stand in front of the department store, comb our ducktails, talk, and look at girls.

Fiction book (1999)
His thick black hair was combed away from his face, full on the sides, a ducktail in back.

Fiction book (1991)
He wore his dark hair long, combed to a ducktail in the back.

Fiction book (1993)
Finally, he palmed the few dabs remaining on his fingertips over his thick hair and combed it through with a long-handled brush into an immaculate ducktail flaring out at the back of his head.

Fiction book (1998)
His dark red hair is styled in a ducktail that perfectly complements his retro look.
He wore his hair long, arranged to form a ducktail at the back.
Every Saturday, he would spend time fixing his ducktail before meeting his friends.

Surface Forms

ducktail singular

ducktails plural

Morphology

ducktail = duck + tail (transparent) = duck + tail

The hairstyle name is a direct compound meaning 'a tail-like arrangement resembling a duck's tail,' so knowing 'duck' and 'tail' allows an immediate inference of the concept.

Etymology

Ducktail for the hairstyle is named from a simple picture: the back of the hair is combed into a V that looks like a duck's tail, so the style is called a 'tail' of the duck. That's why ducktail means that neat back-of-the-head look.