crew-cutted

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From crew cut + -ed.

Adjective

crew-cutted (not comparable)

  1. Having 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.
    • 1987, Frederick C. Klein, On Sports, Chicago, Ill.: Bonus Books, →ISBN, page 98:
      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).
    • 1991 April, Ann Hood, “The Avalon Ballroom”, in Seventeen, page 178:
      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.
    • 2009, Robert Rodriguez, The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years, Facts That Matter, Inc., →ISBN, page 32:
      Their novel hairstyles also drew notice, especially in a crew-cutted and Brylcreemed America.
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