baby bangs

English

This 1903 portrait of Joan of Arc features baby bangs.

Alternative forms

  • baby-bangs

Noun

baby bangs pl (plural only)

  1. (slang) Short, straight, blunt-edged bangs (hairstyle), especially when paired with a bob.
    • 2012, Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America:
      This is the famous Harold Halma shot of young Capote supine on a sofa, facing the camera with his baby bangs and seductive gaze.
    • 2015 June 21, Amy Sohn, “Women who dress for themselves, and nobody else”, in Sierra Vista Herald, page C3:
      On her feet were black socks with platform sport sandals, and her face was framed by John Lennon glasses and blue baby bangs.
    • 2016, Katelyn Bongiorno, "Hair Flair", Cliche Magazine, August/September 2016, page 38:
      Bangs are being reinvented this season in a big way, and baby bangs are all the rage during the warm summer months.
    • 2019 September, Karen Campbell, “Big Bang Theory”, in Hampton Gazette, page 27:
      Baby bangs will emphasise beautiful brows; []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:baby bangs.

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