close-cropped

English

Adjective

close-cropped (comparative more close-cropped, superlative most close-cropped)

  1. Cut very short.
    A soldier with close-cropped hair walked past.
  2. Having the hair cut very short.
    Minutes later, several more close-cropped fellows passed by in an evident hurry.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:
      Bradly could see the livid mark of scars on the close-cropped sandy skull. They were recent, and still showed contused edges[.]

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