crew-cutted

adjective

Having a crew cut.

Meanings

adjectivecrew-cutted (not comparable)

alternative crewcutted

  1. not comparableHaving a crew cut.

    1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Those boys are just freckle-faced crew-cutted creeps and big loud show-offs.

    3 more examples

    Nicklaus’s 72-hole score was 279, nine strokes under par and, incidentally, seven better than his winning total here in 1963 when he was a beefy, crew-cutted 23-year-old (but eight strokes worse than his course-record 271 in 1965).

    1987, Frederick C. Klein, On Sports, Chicago, Ill.: Bonus Books, →ISBN, page 98

    This shrine seems to be to an entirely different person, one who is crew-cutted and uniformed, who clutches his football helmet in an old picture in which he crouches, number 16, with the Princeton junior varsity football team of 1968.

    1991 April, Ann Hood, “The Avalon Ballroom”, in Seventeen, page 178

    Their novel hairstyles also drew notice, especially in a crew-cutted and Brylcreemed America.

    2009, Robert Rodriguez, The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years, Facts That Matter, Inc., →ISBN, page 32

Origin

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