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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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
Sheriff’s detectives and FBI agents served a search warrant at the Buzzard home where a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk includes a picture of the curly haired girl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
Iona is depicted in marketing imagery as a red haired woman in a Scottish landscape.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
Norman, the 50-pound and coarsely haired guest, snoozed within the plastic walls of his igloo-shaped shelter in mid-November.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
He’d assumed that the person playing the oboe was the curly- haired girl, Marigold.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
At 47, grey -haired, jut-jawed Alvin George Brush sometimes feels like the old-woman-in-the-shoe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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