close-cropped

American  

[klohs-kropt] / ˈkloʊsˈkrɒpt /

adjective

1. clipped or trimmed short.

   close-cropped hair.

2. having one's hair clipped or trimmed short.

   a close-cropped wrestler.

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Etymology

Origin of close-cropped

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The Rev. Israel Vázquez, 58, soft-spoken with close-cropped hair, had held Briany before, when he formally presented the baby to God in a ceremony at his Pentecostal church in Lakeland.

From Salon

He was a tall man with close-cropped orange-red hair whom I knew by name—Rolf van Vliet—but little else.

From Literature

On TV, at town halls and universities, the bespectacled officer, with close-cropped gray hair and an almost professorial demeanor, lays out the stakes for his countrymen.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, he was “a 36-year-old unshaven woolly-headed Guardsman in wrinkled flight suit and scuffed boots” facing “a cadre of handsome, young Marine officers—the President’s elite fliers: close-cropped, fresh-shaved, immaculate in tailored flight suits, spit-shined boots.”

From Literature

She ran her hand through her close-cropped hair and looked away.

From Literature