sideburn
- noun
- /ˈsaɪdˌbɜrn/
- He trimmed his sideburns carefully to maintain a neat appearance.
- long sideburns
He's describing what's happening and she he says her fingers ran through my sideburns, not your sideburns anyway.
- He's describing what's happening and she he says her fingers ran through my sideburns, not your sideburns anyway.
- Another mistake most men still make is shaving their beards but going too high up on the sideburns.
- So I'll get like my sideburns and then like the front pieces and it stays so perfectly.
- Made me go across the street to the employee locker room or the cast member locker room and shave, dock my pen, shave my sideburns up.
- We would have had massive ties and sideburns and we'd be constantly smoking.
- Same on this side, fix the sideburns, push my hair in behind my ear because that gets rid of all of that poofiness and then let the hair fall here on this side.
- I just pulled out some little my like my sideburn curls here.
- I'll spray some in my fingertips just to get my sideburns.
- Dude, if I put a comb near my hair right now, one of my sideburns are my, the back of my hair.
- You lost Mike Johnson, suck my sideburns.
Examples
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How do you like your sideburns?
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Mrs. Gump opens the door, revealing a young man with long sideburns as he plays the guitar and sings.
Fiction book (1994) -
All right, looks pretty good except for these little these little sideburn wings.
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Are you seeing that sideburn and the mustache?
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Especially the sideburns and the back of your neck.
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The sideburns are coming in nice, huh?
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Long sideburns, like an actor.
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His hair was cut close to the skull, and he had long, narrow sideburns, like stripes on a hot car.
Fiction book (2000) -
"If you'd told me in time," I said, "I could have let my sideburns grow and grown a little mustache."
Fiction book (1994) -
His long dark sideburns were as neatly trimmed as his thick mustache.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
Hair that grows on the face, like a beard or mustache
A strip of hair along the face beside the ears with the chin shaved
Hair grown on the sides of the face in front of the ears
Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and reach the jaw
A strip of hair on each side of a man's face in front of the ears
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sideburn comes from the name of American general Burnside, who wore wide strips of hair down the sides of his face; people first called them 'Burnside's' and later changed the name to sideburns. So sideburn now means a strip of hair grown down the side of the face in front of the ear.