"have one's ears lowered" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-have one's ears lowered.ogg [Australia] Forms: has one's ears lowered [present, singular, third-person], having one's ears lowered [participle, present], had one's ears lowered [participle, past], had one's ears lowered [past]
Etymology: Hair cuts change the relative position of the end of a person's hair and the person's ears and the term is based on the humorous supposition that the same effect could have been achieved by moving the ears lower down the person's face. Head templates: {{en-verb|have<has,,had> one's ears lowered}} have one's ears lowered (third-person singular simple present has one's ears lowered, present participle having one's ears lowered, simple past and past participle had one's ears lowered)
  1. (idiomatic, humorous, dated) To get a haircut. Tags: dated, humorous, idiomatic Categories (topical): Hair

Inflected forms

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