pubic hair

Noun

pubic hair (countable and uncountable, plural pubic hairs)

1. (collective) The hair that grows in the pubic region from puberty.
   • The method of the root's use was pure sorcery; the powder being burned over a fire, with some of the operator's pubic hair and characteristic secretions.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161
   • Negroes (teeth, fingers, toe nails and pubic hair gilded), Japanese boys smooth and white as china, Titian-haired Venetian lads, Americans with blond or black curls falling across the forehead (the guests tenderly shove it back), sulky blond Polacks with animal brown eyes, Arab and Spanish street...1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 79

   Synonyms:

   nether hair, bush, short and curlies, short hairs, pubes, carpet, floss, fluff, forest, fur

2. (singular) A single hair growing in the pubic region.