"bibrow" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bibrows [plural]
Etymology: From bi- + brow, modeled after unibrow or monobrow. Etymology templates: {{af|en|bi-|brow}} bi- + brow, {{m|en|unibrow}} unibrow, {{m|en|monobrow}} monobrow Head templates: {{en-noun}} bibrow (plural bibrows)
  1. (rare, informal) A pair of eyebrows which do not meet in the middle, as opposed to a unibrow. Tags: informal, rare
    Sense id: en-bibrow-en-noun-Q~UZ5XLl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with bi-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2003 January 26, Peter Ellis, “Re: [I] Is Long, Was Bowling for Columbine”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)",
          "text": "And, for the avoidance of doubt among the slower portion of the readership, I don't *actually* believe the monobrow to be a criminal indicator. That, of course, is the sole province of the tribrows like myself, monstrous offspring of a monobrow and bibrow parent.",
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        {
          "ref": "2005 August 10, Matt Silberstein, “Re: What Darwinism is good for.”, in talk.origins (Usenet)",
          "text": "[> He would be more likely to have children with unibrows or good thick eyebrows, until one day there would be a whole unibrow race.]\nWhat do you think would happen if bibrow people tended to die before they had children and unibrow people tended to survive?",
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          "ref": "2010, Molly Patton, Just South of Normal, Lulu.com, page 239",
          "text": "Now he was taller, more muscular, and he'd let his hair grow out quite a bit – it was brown and curly, like Davin's, only Hunter's was longer. And the unibrow had graduated to a bibrow, with an ample amount of hairless skin in between.",
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          "text": "[> He would be more likely to have children with unibrows or good thick eyebrows, until one day there would be a whole unibrow race.]\nWhat do you think would happen if bibrow people tended to die before they had children and unibrow people tended to survive?",
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