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unibrow

American  
[yoo-nuh-brau] / ˈju nəˌbraʊ /

noun

  • unibrows
    plural
  1. a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them.

    He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.


unibrow British  
/ ˈjuːnɪˌbraʊ /

noun

  1. informal a single eyebrow created when the two eyebrows meet in the middle above the bridge of the nose

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of unibrow

First recorded in 1985–90; uni- + brow


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I was a painfully shy introvert with a unibrow who yearned to be an elderly shut-in by age 9.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Her face is framed by her long, loose hair and her signature unibrow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

He describes himself at the “Happy Days” audition as “a short Jew from New York City with a unibrow and hair down to my shoulders, confident about next to nothing in my life.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

To no surprise, a quick search of "claire the bear unibrow" on Twitter shows that we're not there yet, which is so boring and sad.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2023

And it stood to reason that if you were even a little bit divine, you should not have a unibrow.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

That being said, I think I have a thing for unibrows?

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2023

Handsome Tajik boys with thick unibrows — a mark of beauty in the Persianate world — sold turmeric, cumin, red chile and star anise.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

Better yet, we can curse the Ravens by selling Ray Lewis crocodile tears or Joe Flacco unibrows.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2013

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