terf bangs
terf bangs is the alternative form of TERF bangs.
Noun capitalized: TERF bangs
TERF bangs pl (plural only)
- Short, straight, blunt-edged bangs, especially when paired with a bob on a woman.
- TERF bangs: My tumblr post critiquing modern beauty standards got over 100,000 reblogs, but it's so important to uphold these values in day-to-day life, too. I don't even know what TERF stands for!2017, "How To Dress Like an Art Hoe", Jerk Magazine (Syracuse University), March 2017, page 67 (caption pointing to an image of someone with such bangs)
- Basically, you can pry my TERF bangs from my cold, dead forehead—unless you tell me they’re actively doing harm, in which case I guess it’s headbands for a while.2019, Anonymous, quoted in Danny M. Lavery, "Help! My Stepfather Told Me He Had a Sex Dream About Me.", Slate, 6 August 2019
- Synonyms:
- baby bangs
Synonyms of terf bangs
Forms of terf bangs
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Origin of terf bangs
Originated on social media platform Tumblr circa 2014 from the (possibly jocular) association of women with this hairstyle and trans-exclusionary feminist views.
Questions about terf bangs
- What does terf bangs mean?
- Terf bangs means short, straight, blunt-edged bangs, especially when paired with a bob on a woman.
- What is terf bangs the alternative form of?
- Terf bangs is the alternative form of TERF bangs.
- What part of speech is terf bangs?
- Terf bangs is a noun.
Words near terf bangs in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: terf bangs (page history and authors); TERF bangs (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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