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close-cropped

close-cropped adjective: cut very short.

close-cropped: cut very short
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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.
    • Bradly could see the livid mark of scars on the close-cropped sandy skull. They were recent, and still showed contused edges[.]1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21

Forms of close-cropped

comparativemore close-cropped
superlativemost close-cropped

Questions about close-cropped

What does close-cropped mean?
Close-cropped means cut very short.
What part of speech is close-cropped?
Close-cropped is an adjective.

Words near close-cropped in the dictionary

  1. close with a buck
  2. close, but no cigar
  3. close-back
  4. close-bodied
  5. close-coupled
  6. close-cropped
  7. close-ear
  8. close-eared
  9. close-ended question
  10. close-ended questions
  11. close-fights

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