Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Growths of hair down the sides of a man's face in front of the ears, especially when worn with the rest of the beard shaved off.
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- noun
Facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Union army general's famous facial hairstyle led to the term sideburns and I hear Huston is trying to grow his own for the part.
Trailer trash 2011
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One of them, Ambrose Burnside, even gave rise to the term sideburns because of his elaborate whiskers.
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Burnside, who loved facial hair and from whom the word sideburns originated, was here briefly in 1865 when more than 30,000 Yankee soldiers poured into town at the end of the Civil War.
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The lack of gray hair in jack’s sideburns is a dead giveaway that it’s an alternate timeline.
The Tail Section » Theory Time - Rite Aid Confirms Christian Shephard Alive 2007
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Although the sideburns are a little longer than his
Twilight Lexicon » Madame Tussauds To Add Robert Pattinson to Their Collection 2010
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The truth is he has thick body hair that he had knitted to look like a turtleneck, that, and the sideburns are a side-effect of too much EPO and HGH.
Crisis of Faith: Bidding a Bittersweet Adieu to the Tour BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Particularly the "sideburns" are clearly styled down from the principle mass of the coiffure.
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here in austraila we call those "sideburns" the young lady was wearing "koala bears ears" or spiders legs
Hairy Situations: Embracing Patterns BikeSnobNYC 2010
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In my dream, the Hispanic man with the fat face and bleeding body and long sideburns and hair imagined by a negro clown drove the shiny blue car to the beach and ordered the two of us to get out.
Burt Reynolds, the pig, and me. Calib Donigan 2012
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The current state of drug research studies traces back to a 1975 phone call between an executive at what was then the world's largest drug company and a 30-year-old Brit with longish hair and bushy sideburns named Dennis Gillings.
Money, Math And Medicine Matthew Herper 2010
uselessness commented on the word sideburns
I have a love-hate relationship with my sideburns. Most days they are intent on asymmetry. I would shave them if they weren't my single greatest physical attribute. Maybe I should work out.
February 18, 2007
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word sideburns
I've had Koreans refer to my sideburns (on more than one occasion) as "little beards." Hell, I'm adding that.
February 18, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sideburns
What if you grew them both long enough to meet in the middle, under your chin?
Never mind.
February 18, 2007
rolig commented on the word sideburns
Originally "burnside", from General Burnside (1824–1881).
December 5, 2007