having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination).
dark-haired; long-haired.
New England (chiefly Maine). angry, annoyed, or upset (often followed byup ).
Don't get haired up over his insults.
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There is Kyle Troup, the ginger haired “Pro with the Fro” — “I guess I’m the Bob Ross of bowling,” he says, though you may also think of Richard Simmons — clownish, with colorful dress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
You may snigger that the fluffy haired and sequin-loving singer-songwriter is a cheesy anti-poet, fixating on such mortal lines as “No one heard at all, not even the chair.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Ms Potter opened the page to find Iona - a text-to-speech programme marketed as a red haired woman standing in a Scottish glen.
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Serra, 30 and shaggy haired, had shown his first splash piece a year earlier, in a group show at the Castelli Warehouse, a storage space on West 108th Street.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Harold Rheinbeck was sixty-nine, gray haired, a longtime boxing fan, and an enthusiastic recreational hunter, but he was a sensitive man, too, and well aware of the intricate emotional complexities of the case.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Grey -haired, cigar -chewing Bobby Burns, bemedaled 31-year Air Force veteran, heard Bell out, called the terminal to verify his story, then rang up Tachikawa tower.
From Time Magazine Archive
At 47, grey -haired, jut-jawed Alvin George Brush sometimes feels like the old-woman-in-the-shoe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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