"hairmageddon" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: hairmageddons [plural]
Etymology: Blend of hair + Armageddon Etymology templates: {{blend|en|hair|Armageddon}} Blend of hair + Armageddon Head templates: {{en-noun}} hairmageddon (plural hairmageddons)
  1. (informal) An instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Hair Synonyms: bad hair day
    Sense id: en-hairmageddon-en-noun-HyCKGnEH Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of hair + Armageddon",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Lexi George, Demon Hunting With a Dixie Deb, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "Sassy tugged on a curl. It straightened and bounced back to its former loopy state. “This is a disaster. This is worse than a disaster. This is hairmageddon.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 February 14, Frankie McCoy, “Hairmageddon: what happens when you get yourself a Kaia Gerber style Eighties bouffant?”, in Evening Standard:",
          "text": "This is hairmageddon — I look like the love child of an 18th-century duchess and a drag queen circa 1988.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 24, Jonathan Margolis, “The online solutions to lockdown grooming problems”, in Financial Times:",
          "text": "Even though we mostly now see people onscreen, by June we may hit an unseemly Hairmageddon. As for the DIY coiffure, Google “lockdown haircuts” to see how they’re going.",
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        "An instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control."
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          "unsightly"
        ],
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          "out of control"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bad hair day"
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      ],
      "tags": [
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    }
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  "word": "hairmageddon"
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        {
          "ref": "2018 February 14, Frankie McCoy, “Hairmageddon: what happens when you get yourself a Kaia Gerber style Eighties bouffant?”, in Evening Standard:",
          "text": "This is hairmageddon — I look like the love child of an 18th-century duchess and a drag queen circa 1988.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 24, Jonathan Margolis, “The online solutions to lockdown grooming problems”, in Financial Times:",
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        "(informal) An instance in which one's hair is unsightly or out of control."
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