hairline

US/ˈhɛɹˌlaɪn/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,602 of 15,258leans spoken

Other forms: hairlines

The hairline is the edge where the hair begins on the forehead. A receding hairline, a high hairline, the hairline moved back.

Male pattern baldness starts there and at the crown, and it is driven by hormones acting on follicles that are genetically sensitive. A hairline crack is a different sense — one as fine as a hair, and in bone or metal it can still be serious.

Definitions of hairline

1nounhairlineThe edge where the hair begins on the forehead.B2
“His hairline had begun to move back, so he decided to shave his head.”

hairline is an edge.

Where it comes from

Hair plus line. The second sense, a very fine crack, comes from the width of a single hair.

From hair + line.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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hairline in the wild

The top of the forehead is marked by the hairline, the edge of the area where hair on the scalp grows.
Forehead
Stress fractures can be described as small cracks in the bone, or hairline fractures.
Stress fracture
A shape-up, also called a line-up or an edge-up, is a hairstyle where the natural hairline is trimmed to look straight and sharp.
Shape-up
Pomade acne is a type of acne cosmetica that appears as a group of small bumps close to the hairline on the forehead, frequently seen in black skin.
Pomade acne
A widow's peak is a V-shaped point in the hairline in the center of the forehead.
Widow's peak

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