Eton crop

British

noun

a short mannish hairstyle worn by women in the 1920s

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At St. Anne’s, a women’s college at Oxford, he spent most of his time rowing crew and wore his hair in the Eton crop — a short and slicked-down hairstyle, popular with lesbians on campus.

From New York Times • May 10, 2022

Other popular short cuts include variations on the bowl cut, the pixie cut and the Eton crop — short at the back and topped with dyed waves.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2018

In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled: "Long hair no, bobbed no go, Eton crop yah hoo, severe shingle righto."

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