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Definition of "longhair" [longhair]

  • Informal One dedicated to the arts and especially to classical music. (noun)
  • Informal One whose taste in the arts is considered to be overrefined. (noun)
  • Informal A person with long hair, especially a hippie. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "longhair" in a sentence
  • ""longhair" - i.e. anything more than half-an-inch - and accidentally stumbled into the Long Branch Saloon instead of the adjacent Wrangler you were in big trouble, in actuality seldom did anything amiss occur, even when Sam Peckinpah was letting off volleys of pistol shots into the ceiling of his permanent room at the Baxter Hotel."
  • "It's a long way from my days in rock 'n roll in the 1970s when "longhair" music did not mean classical."
  • "But the obvious criticism of Star Trek is that its intergalactic lingo was too unchanged: in the episode in which Scotty makes his debut, another crew member lies in the sick bay and complains that Kirk is making him read all this "longhair" stuff."