Haircut

Definitions: Haircut

Haircut

Noun

1. The style in which hair haw been cut.

2. The act of cutting the hair.

Date "haircut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Haircut

Domain	Definitions
Finance	(1) that portion of an asset's value that cannot be used as collateral. For example, if 90 percent of an asset's value can be used as collateral for a loan, the haircut is 10 percent. Therefore, to provide full backing, the lender will require collateral that is valued in excess of the amount of the loan. The haircut is meant to. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Haircut

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

See also: Haircut (finance) Unlike other animals, human beings of many cultures cut their hair, rather than letting it grow naturally. A haircut normally describes cutting head hair, rather than other body hair such as pubic, facial or underarm hair.

Hair styles are often used to signal cultural, social and ethnic identity. Hair styles in both men and women also vary with fashion.

There is a thriving world market in cut human hair of sufficient length for wig manufacture. In less developed countries, selling one's hair can be a significant source of income - depending on length, thickness and color, wig makers have been known to pay as much as US$40 for a head of hair. In the United States, cut hair of at least 10 inches length may be donated to charity.

Groups of people who do not cut their hair:

Nazarenes
Sikhs
others?

Types of haircut:

Afro -- curly hair allowed to grow out equally all around, popular with African Americans, but worn by others
Beatle cut -- after the fashion of the early Beatles, long all around, neatly cut, very new to Americans at the time, but not an uncommon British haircut. During the height of Beatlemania Beatle wigs were sold.
Buzz cut -- also called a butch cut, short all over
Bob -- short woman's cut, first popular in the 1920s, considered a sign of a liberated woman.
Bowl cut or Moe, after the Three Stooges character
Crew cut, similar to buzz, originally worn by college rowers in the 1900s to distinguish themselves from football players, who had long hair (to supplement the inadequate helmets of the time)
DA -- for "duck's ass", combed long on sides, parted in back, also called ducktail or southback. The parting in the back caused the hair to stick up, hence the name.
flattop -- just as it says, when combined with DA, called a Detroit
Devilock -- Short in back and on sides, long in front.
Mohawk -- both sides shaved, buzz cut in the middle
Mohican -- both sides shaved, longer in the middle
Mullet -- short on top, quite long on sides
Pompadour -- big wave in the front, named for Madame de Pompadour aristocratic fashion leader of pre-Revolutionary France, mistress of Louis XV of France, Elvis Presley had one.
Shaven head or skinhead -- not always a political statement
Short back and sides -- "boy's haircut"

Haircut (finance)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In finance, a haircut is the amount of net-capital a broker-dealer must maintain in order order to comply with regulatory capital requirements. This usually involves the valuation of the broker-dealer's securities using prescribed formulas that depend on the type of security that is being valued.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Haircut."

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Crosswords: Haircut

English words defined with "haircut": bob, brush cut ♦ compare, crew cut ♦ Mohican, Mohican haircut ♦ spring. (references)

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Modern Usage: Haircut

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.) I just want to know if you like your haircut. (The Rock; writing credit: Douglas Cook.) Nice haircut. (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra) I was supposed to get a haircut but when I looked in the mirror, I realized my hair was already perfect. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) Well, he changed since the last time you saw him. He got a haircut. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)
Clever	Never give yourself a haircut after three margaritas. (references; author: unknown) The difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is about a week. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Haircut (1963) Dud's Haircut (1920) Haircut (1999) The Haircut (1982)
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Commercial Usage: Haircut

Domain	Title
Books	A Shave and a Haircut (reference) Age & Guile, Beat Youth, Innocence & a Bad Haircut (reference) Getting a Haircut (First Time) (reference) Haircut and Other Stories (reference) How to Cut Your Child's Hair at Home: A Step-By-Step Guide to Giving Your Child a Professional Looking Haircut at Home (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	Conair HC220XCS 20-Piece Deluxe Haircut Kit with Video (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Haircut

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Photo Album: Haircut

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Native trades boar for clothes and haircut Now the ship has a brand new crewman Photo #2 of sequence.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Time for a haircut - Carey V. Hodgson reading paper and getting a trim Astro party of Carey V. Hodgson.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Camp haircut at Pop Lake.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Haircut

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Afghanistan	In January the Taliban reportedly arrested 28 barbers in Kabul for giving customers a haircut styled after that of actor Leonardo DiCaprio in the film "Titanic." In March religious police reportedly ordered all students across the country to wear turbans in class. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Haircut

"Haircut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.56% of the time. "Haircut" is used about 226 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.56%	225	20,080
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.44%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	226	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Haircut

Expressions using "haircut": get a haircut ♦ have a haircut ♦ mohican haircut. Additional references.
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Modern Translations: Haircut

Language		Translations for "haircut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qethje flokësh, model flokësh (hairdo, headdress). (various references)

Arabic		‏قصة شعر (coiffure, styling), ‏الحلاقة, ‏الحلا قة. (various references)

Bulgarian		подстригване (profession, shearing, trimming). (various references)

Chinese		理发. (various references)

Czech		střih (cut, edition, pattern, shear), stříhání vlasù. (various references)

Danish		haircut. (various references)

Dutch		haircut. (various references)

Farsi		موچینی , سلمانی (Barber, Shaver). (various references)

Finnish		aliarvostus. (various references)

French		marge initiale de sécurité, marge de sécurité, coupe de cheveux, coupe. (various references)

German		Haarschnitt (clip, crop, hairstyle). (various references)

Greek		κούρεμα (clipping, shearing, sheep clipping, sheep shearing, sheep-shearing). (various references)

Hebrew		תספורת. (various references)

Hungarian		hajvágás (crop, hairclip, hair-do), nyiratkozás, frizura (becoming style of hair-dressing, clip, coiffure, hairdo, hair-do, hairdressing, hairstyle, headdress, head-dress). (various references)

Indonesian		pangkasan (haircut or other trim given), berpangkas (get a haircut), bercukur (get a haircut, shave). (various references)

Italian		taglio di capelli. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		理髪 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かり�"み (pruning, roundup), りはつ (cleverness, intelligence, wisdom), ちょうはつ (arousal, barbering, commandeering, long hair, provocation, requisition, stirring up). (various references)

Korean		이발. (various references)

Manx		baarey fuilt. (various references)

Pig Latin		aircuthay.(various references)

Portuguese		corte de cabelo. (various references)

Romanian		tunsoare (shear, tonsure), pieptãnãturã (hair do, oakum), frizurã (head-dress), frezã (cutter, mill, Miller, milling machine). (various references)

Russian		стрижка (clip, clipping, hair-cut, shear, shearing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		šišanje (clip). (various references)

Spanish		corte de pelo (crew cut). (various references)

Swedish		haircut, hårklippning, frisyr (coiffure, hairdo, hairstyle). (various references)

Thai		การตั�"ผม, ทรงผม (coiffure, hairdo). (various references)

Turkish		saç traşı, saç kesme (clip), saç kesimi. (various references)

Ukranian		стрижка (clip, clipping, cut). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Haircut

Derivations
	Words beginning with "haircut": haircuts, haircutter, haircutters, haircutting, haircuttings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Haircut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arcutt, dairut, hairu, Harkhuf, Harmut, Haycrust. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Haircut"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "haircut" (pronounced he"rku't)
3	-k u' t	shortcut, undercut.
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Anagrams: Haircut

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: uratic.
	-2 letters: airth, aitch, auric, chair, chart, curia, ratch, triac.
	-3 letters: airt, arch, cart, char, chat, chia, chit, curt, hair, hart, haut, huic, hurt, itch, rath, rich, ruth, tach, tahr, thir, thru, uric.
	-4 letters: act, air, ait, arc, art, car, cat, chi, cur, cut, hat, hic, hit, hut, ich, rah, rat, ria, rut, tar, tau, tic, tui, uta.
	-5 letters: ah, ai, ar, at, ha, hi, it, ta, ti, uh, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: haircuts.
	+2 letters: autarchic, rheumatic, ultrachic, ultrarich.
	+3 letters: antichurch, autarchies, eurybathic, haircutter, parachutic, pasticheur, raunchiest, rheumatics, theurgical, thiouracil, trauchling, ultrafiche, unactorish.
	+4 letters: autarchical, autographic, autotrophic, auxotrophic, charcuterie, coauthoring, curatorship, eucharistic, euchromatic, euchromatin, haircutters, haircutting, hyperacuity, ichthyosaur, neuropathic, outcharging, outcharming, outmarching, outreaching, parachuting, parachutist, pasticheurs, therapeutic, thiouracils, ultrafiches, unchristian.
	+5 letters: architecture, charcuteries, chartularies, churchianity, coauthorship, curatorships, euchromatins, haircuttings, hallucinator, ichthyosaurs, naturopathic, neurasthenic, outpreaching, parachutists, roughcasting, thaumaturgic, therapeutics, uncharitable, uncharitably, unhistorical, unhysterical, unrhetorical.
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