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hairdo

UK/ˈhɛəˌduː/US/ˈhɛəˌduː/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,424 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: hairdos

A hairdo is a person's hair as set and arranged for one occasion. An elaborate hairdo, ruin your hairdo.

It is informal and slightly dated, and it means the arrangement rather than the cut. A hairdo is done for a wedding or a photograph and does not survive a night's sleep.

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of hairdo

  1. 1nounhairdoInformal and slightly dated: a person's hair as set and arranged for one particular occasion, not the neutral general word for the cut and shape they wear.B2

    “Grandma came back from the salon with a big curly hairdo for the wedding.”

hairdo is a style.

Where it comes from

From hair + do.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

hairdo in the wild

  • A hairstyle, hairdo, haircut, or coiffure refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human head but sometimes on the face or body.

    Hairstyle

  • Derwall's hairdo provided the basis for his nickname "Chieftain Silver Curl".

    Jupp Derwall

  • According to other sources, Chapeau recalls a bizarre hairdo of a Native American chief.

    Chapeau, Quebec

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.