Close-cropped means cut very short. Close-cropped hair, a close-cropped lawn.
It is used of hair and of grass, and both are cut rather than worn short. A close-cropped head is the standard where hair would be a nuisance or a hazard.
1adjectiveclose-croppedCut very short.
“He kept his hair close-cropped from the day he joined.”
close-cropped is a quality.
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire