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close-cropped
noun as in crew cut
Example Sentences
Day-Lewis, now 68 and whose last film was Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” seems carved out of stone as Ray, his close-cropped hair and imposing gray goatee suggesting a man who doesn’t just live off the grid but thrives there.
His salt-and-pepper hair is close-cropped like an athlete’s, “because it’s all falling out,” he laughed.
At the time of his “Today” appearance, Coulier had lost only “a little bit of hair” but managed to pull off a close-cropped buzz cut.
Kobe’s beanie is Lakers gold and his jacket Lakers purple in the mural, but the close-cropped beard and mustache he sported that night is accurately portrayed.
With his San Fernando Valley Chicano accent, close-cropped hair and frequent use of words like “carnal,” “playboy” and “fool,” Tejada can come off to a first-time listener as a Pendleton-wearing buffoon in a Culture Clash skit.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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