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bar-code hairstyle n. A style in which a man's last few strands of hair are combed across the top of his head, thus resembling a bar-code pattern.

Example Citation:
bar-code hairstyle (baakado haasutyru): A term used by Japanese university students to describe male professors with thinning hair who comb what few tresses they have left over their bald spots.
—Michael Kesterton, "Social Studies," The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1998

Earliest Citation:
When Arthur Scargill rose to speak at the conference yesterday, he caught his braces on a doorknob en route to the podium and yanked himself back to an era when coal was king and he was on the throne. ''People keep telling me,'' he screamed, apparently unaware that the black tube pointing towards his mouth was a microphone, ''they don't want to go back to the 70s. I'd LOVE to go back to the 70s.'' ...

Scargill has kept not just his 70s bar-code hairstyle but also his 70s vocabulary in trim. The Government is waging an ''ideological war'' against the unions. ''Get off your knees and fight back.''
—Joe Joseph, "Ex-King Coal blares out his passion for the past," The Times of London, September 7, 1994

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Subject Categories:
Culture - Appearance and Grooming
Sociology - Men and Women

Posted on January 28, 1998
Updated on January 28, 1998


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