toupee
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- noun
- /tuːˈpeɪ/
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postizo
- The old man from the home with the awful toupee drawn across his forehead like a dead squirrel.
It reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld when Elaine takes George's toupee like this.
- It reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld when Elaine takes George's toupee like this.
- And this, this this blueprint for a fascist coup was written by disgraced former law professor and inventor of the side toupee, John Eastman.
- I mean, you know, God knows I would love my own cat toupee.
- Now it looks like an ugly, stubby little Mercedes G wagon wearing a toupee.
Examples
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He takes off his toupee.
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Back in civilian life, I wear a toupee, but nobody knows.
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And he had an ugly little toupee on.
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I lift my toupee and hang it on a lamp.
Fiction book (1991) -
Why don't you go buy a toupee with some brains in it?
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Do you know that that's a toupee he wears?
Fiction book (1997) -
Is that a toupee?
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She has lousy perfume, and he has a lousy toupee.
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He had on a bleach blonde toupee, had wrinkly skin, stunning blue eyes, and a sexy business suit.
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My grandfather wears a toupee to cover his thinning hair.
Synonyms
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3.6
A piece of hair worn to hide baldness or change hairstyle
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Etymology
Toupee comes from the French word toupet, which meant a small 'tuft' of hair, so a toupee is literally a little hair tuft worn to cover a bald spot.