"backcomb" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "back + comb",
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        "To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look."
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        {
          "word": "tease"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
          "word": "toupieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "xaíno",
          "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
          "word": "ξαίνω"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "krepáro",
          "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
          "word": "κρεπάρω"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
          "word": "tupíroz"
        }
      ]
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  ],
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    {
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      "word": "back-comb"
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  "word": "backcomb"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "back + comb",
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    {
      "form": "backcombs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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          "ref": "2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975",
          "text": "You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The hairstyle produced by backcombing."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1876, Lex, Remarkable Criminal Trials in Bengal",
          "text": "There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a backcomb were lying near an easy chair.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, volume 39, issues 1-6, page 252",
          "text": "A backcomb comprising a pair of oppositely disposed members of sheet material each provided with teeth along one margin, a pivot pin securing the members at one end in overlapping relation.",
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        "A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle."
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        "(dated) A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle."
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        "To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look."
      ],
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        ],
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          "bushier",
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          "word": "tease"
        }
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    {
      "word": "back-comb"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
      "word": "toupieren"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "xaíno",
      "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
      "word": "ξαίνω"
    },
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "krepáro",
      "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
      "word": "κρεπάρω"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to hold hair and comb it towards the head",
      "word": "tupíroz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "backcomb"
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  "etymology_text": "back + comb",
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        "The hairstyle produced by backcombing."
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        }
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        "A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle."
      ],
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          "comb",
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        "(dated) A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle."
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