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haircut
noun- a short prison sentence UK
From the short period of time between haircuts. “Barnet cut” is the rhyming slang equivalent. - — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, p. 9, 1950
- — Delinquently Yours, February 1959
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 59, 1996
- a lowering of the true mileometer (odometer) reading of a motor vehicle to increase its resale value NEW ZEALAND
- Normally when speedos are illegally tampered with, the odometer is deftly wound back. In some shadier parts of the trade, this technique is known as “giving the car a haircut.” — AA Motoring Today, p. 9, April 1990
- marijuana UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- a sore on a man’s penis as the result of a sexually transmitted infection TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
From the popular belief that the sore was caused by a woman’s pubic hair. - — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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