backcomb
The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
Noun
- The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
- You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway - 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:
- A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
- There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a backcomb were lying near an easy chair. - 1876, Lex, Remarkable Criminal Trials in...
- A backcomb comprising a pair of oppositely disposed members of sheet material each provided with teeth along one margin, a pivot pin securing the members at one end in overlapping relation. - 1912, The Canadian Patent...
- Her father had produced a pink crêpe de Chine blouse and a backcomb massed with brilliants—both of which she refused to wear. - 1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, The Lost Girl, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC:
Origin
From back + comb.
Forms
Verb
- To hold the hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.
- Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head. - 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
Synonyms: tease