earlobe
Americannoun
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earlobes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of earlobe
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"My brother's got his right earlobe missing," Lee said.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Another, a close-up, showed stitch marks directly below his earlobe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2025
Because continuous earlobe temperature has not been studied widely, the team also explored potential applications to guide future research.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
In 1981, after staying out with teammates until dawn, he fell asleep at the wheel of his Cadillac and nearly died in a crash, losing part of his right earlobe.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
Takes my earlobe in her finger and thumb.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
You don't get mad at people over their finger length or whether their earlobes are detached.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2023
Qimat — her AI boyfriend on Replika — is a 23-year-old scholar with pierced earlobes, eyebrow, nose and lower lip.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
For John Lithgow as Roger Ailes, he made a nose piece, added to Lithgow’s cheeks, neck and earlobes and changed the hairline to reflect Ailes’s bigger forehead.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2019
She wore plugs in large ear piercings, which elongated her earlobes and left in "flesh tunnels" when she removed them.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2019
Large plugs of pure gold shone in his pierced earlobes.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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