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toupee
[ too-pey ]
noun
- a man's wig.
- a patch of false hair for covering a bald spot.
- (formerly) a curl or an artificial lock of hair on the top of the head, especially as a crowning feature of a periwig.
toupee
/ ˈtuːpeɪ /
noun
- a wig or hairpiece worn, esp by men, to cover a bald or balding place
- (formerly) a prominent lock on a periwig, esp in the 18th century
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of toupee1
Example Sentences
Glad, no doubt at least in part, because of the buckets full of disobliging quotes there are about Trump, not least from David Lammy, who once described his host as a “woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” and a “tyrant in a toupee”.
The foreign secretary once called Mr Trump a “neo-Nazi sociopath” and “a tyrant in a toupee” but has since distanced themselves from those comments after he was appointed to Sir Keir Starmer's front bench.
I didn’t see a horse until 1984 when I got to work the Derby as a reporter for the first time and witnessed the wind carrying Howard Cosell’s toupee aloft.
She smiled and stared at him as he dug his thick teeth into the late-autumn grass, a black toupee sliding forward off the top of his head.
She smiled and stared at him as he dug his thick teeth into the late-autumn grass, a black toupee sliding forward off the top of his head.
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