Haircut is an English word with synonyms like hairdo or hairstyle. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Haircut meaning
- The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
- The style into which the hair is cut.
- A partial loss, financially: thus, in a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor (based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor); among investors, the negative return on investment from a losing proposition.
Using Haircut
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician. | The style into which the hair is cut. | A partial loss, financially: thus, in a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor (based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor); among investors, the negative return on investment from a losing proposition.
- Useful related words include: hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure.
- In the example corpus, haircut often appears in combinations such as: haircut and, the haircut, for haircut.
Context around Haircut
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Haircut
- In this selection, "haircut" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, old, lovely, seem and ahsoka stand out and add context to how "haircut" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a huge haircut and a lovely haircut. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "haircut" sits close to words such as acidic, attributable and backstop, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with haircut
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A man with a lovely haircut. (6 words)
Lamar still managed a deal with that ridiculous haircut. (9 words)
His tattoos and his haircut seem to have outed him. (10 words)
As I mentioned, I was a footballer until the age of 21, as was my brother at the same time, so going into the barbers to get my haircut most weeks was about as close to a background as I have. (41 words)
I might have an inkling of a barbershop I want to film in. I specifically sought out a haircut in Korea last year at a place that I wasn’t sure still existed. (33 words)
Banks have imposed monthly withdrawal limits or only allowed customers to take out dollars exchanged into Lebanese pounds at a rate considerably lower than the black market, creating a huge haircut. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
A. Law”… realizing that it’s 2023, and you have Arnie Becker’s old haircut.
A man with a lovely haircut.
As I mentioned, I was a footballer until the age of 21, as was my brother at the same time, so going into the barbers to get my haircut most weeks was about as close to a background as I have.
A standard haircut will set you back £23.50 while a hair and beard service, using hot towels and premium products, is priced at £35.
Banks have imposed monthly withdrawal limits or only allowed customers to take out dollars exchanged into Lebanese pounds at a rate considerably lower than the black market, creating a huge haircut.
Before I am finished with a haircut, they’re over Africa.
But his first haircut when he came out was not just about choosing scissors or clippers – it was about feeling inner peace.
Close shave: Australia deny wicketkeeper Alex Carey has dodged paying for an Ashes haircut.
For the time-poor man, Get Groomed is the perfect solution for getting a haircut on the go.
Frasier thinks everyone should take advantage of Leap Day and encourages his father to go to Montana and Daphne to try a new haircut.
He’d occasionally tell employees things like, “Hey, get a haircut” — a nail-biting experience for his son, who started the company’s human resources department.
His tattoos and his haircut seem to have outed him.
I might have an inkling of a barbershop I want to film in. I specifically sought out a haircut in Korea last year at a place that I wasn’t sure still existed.
In the photos that he posted, Asuelu showed off his chic and contemporary fade haircut and a beard, something that fans think suits him well.
Jermaine Lawrence Anderson, the studio's founder, joined ABC7 Monday to talk about the shop and what they are hearing from young people and families who shop and get a haircut.
Lamar still managed a deal with that ridiculous haircut.
Lothal was rebuilt, Sabine had a new haircut, Ahsoka Tano was resplendent in a white robe, and Hera had a son whose age was unconfirmed.
Once describing meeting the family as the "craziest thing I'd ever seen," he has become a friend to them and has now even taken them all out for a haircut.
Rafael Padilla, who works at the barbershop, told Gothamist that while he did come in for a haircut, he left suddenly, before Padilla could finish.
Smith is described as Caucasian, 5 foot 9 tall, 225 pounds, with a dark-coloured Mohawk haircut.
Common combinations with haircut
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- haircut and 25×
- the haircut 14×
- for haircut 14×
- get haircut 13×
- new haircut 11×
- haircut on 9×
- haircut in 6×
- haircut to 6×
- haircut from 6×
- his haircut 5×