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five o’clock shadow noun fast-growing, dark facial whiskers, which give the appearance of needing a shave by late in the afternoon US, 1937 President Richard Nixon was known and ridiculed for his.- I shaved then. We are all afraid of Five O’clock Shadow. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 76, 1949
- I told his burly man with the five-o’clock shadow next to me that I had been to a reunion of some of my old clubhouse friends. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 358, 1961
- Still, his perpetual five o’clock shadow remains zit-free, so he has no real reason for complaint. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, pp. 179–180, 1993
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