bald spot

Or bald·spot

[bawld spot]

noun

1. an area on the scalp that has little or no hair and where hair no longer grows.

2. a small bare area that lacks the natural growth or covering that adjoining areas have.

   a brown bald spot on a lawn;

   a carpet's bald spots.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bald spot¹

First recorded in 1815–20

Example Sentences

Tariq recalls a colleague poking fun at his bald spot during a shopping trip, and describing that as "like an ice pick to my heart".

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Nostalgia figures into the lyrics too, but it’s all very sharply drawn, as in “Take Me Back,” a caffeinated folk-rock shimmy where Danielle is thinking about the people she used to know in the Valley — “David only wants to do what David wants / Had a bald spot, now it’s a parking lot” — and how much easier things were when she’d cruise Kling Street “looking for a place to park in an empty parking lot just so you can feel me up.”

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He grew up to see how politics was at once powerful and petty, like when he took a job editing government documentaries of Lyndon Johnson and was ordered to never show the president’s bald spot.

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Watching Bernie on stage—his face growing steadily pinker, with sheet-white hair pouring out from the baseball cap protecting his bald spot from the sun—it is impossible not to feel some grief for the man.

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“He was at a university, and one of his professors sort of came up behind him and slapped him on his bald spot. And that was the first time he noticed that he was going bald.”

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