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pony-tail

pony-tail is the alternative form of ponytail.

Meaning of ponytail

Noun

ponytail (plural ponytails)

  1. A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.
    • The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154

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Forms of pony-tail

pluralpony-tails

Questions about pony-tail

What is pony-tail the alternative form of?
Pony-tail is the alternative form of ponytail.

Words near pony-tail in the dictionary

  1. pony up
  2. pony wall
  3. pony walls
  4. pony-fucker
  5. pony-fuckers
  6. pony-tail
  7. pony-tailed
  8. pony-tails
  9. pony-trekker
  10. pony-trekkers
  11. pony-trekking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pony-tail (page history and authors); ponytail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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