Dictionary entry

Toupee

Pronunciation: /ˈtuːpeɪ/

Pronunciation

/ˈtuːpeɪ/

Myanmar Meaning

(ဦးခေါင်းတစ်နေရာဖုံးရန်) ဆံပင်တု။

Definition

toupee /'tu:peÇ; US tu:'peÇ/ n (ဦးေခါင္းတစ္ေနရာဖံုးရန္) ဆံပင္တု။

Examples

  1. ‘And to split hairs: how would a toupee be classified?’
  2. ‘There was a time when a bottle of hair dye
  3. pancake make-up
  4. a toupee and a darkly lighted room was about the best effort we could make.’
  5. ‘It's so cool and new
  6. in fact
  7. that it opened yesterday
  8. and at the tables around us
  9. we see nose jobs and breast implants and toupees
  10. and what happens if you get addicted to Botox.’
  11. ‘I've seen ads for beautiful toupees for as low as $9.95.’
  12. ‘And all of us want to know if your hair is real
  13. or it's a toupee or if it's comb-over
  14. died amalgamation or mix of one of the above?’
  15. ‘He'll lift his toupee off his head like it's a top hat.’
  16. ‘Coming from two families of bald men - father
  17. husband
  18. and father-in-law all started losing their hair in their late teens - I don't understand men who wear toupees
  19. much like I don't understand women who wear falsies.’
  20. ‘They will resort to toupees and tucks
  21. soft-focus lighting and soft-fleshed leading ladies of an entirely inappropriate age.’
  22. ‘Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems
  23. it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.’
  24. ‘He tore through the number and
  25. toward the end
  26. shook his long
  27. slicked-back blond hair until it fell forward
  28. like a toupee attached at the brow line
  29. virtually covering his face.’
  30. ‘On the run from France for assorted crimes
  31. he attaches himself
  32. gargoyle-like
  33. to the hotel as a year-round resident
  34. and sets up shop in the town making hair adornments - from toupees to merkins to funeral jewellery.’
  35. ‘There was unkind talk in the press about him dyeing his hair
  36. possibly even wearing a toupee.’
  37. ‘That's why comb-overs or toupees or other attempts to disguise it (including shaving
  38. but less so) are seen as very unattractive.’
  39. ‘I see a world where in places of darkness
  40. toupees and comb overs plot with the glass controller.’
  41. ‘For men
  42. halfhearted comb-overs
  43. plugs
  44. weaves
  45. and toupees are strictly forbidden and will be cause for harsh disciplinary action.’
  46. ‘So… here's some advice: no comb-overs
  47. no toupees
  48. wigs or other attachments.’
  49. ‘In America
  50. I have to cope with tone-deaf cocktail pianists with fire-retardant toupees.’
  51. ‘A court in Dresden ruled today the government is not required to pay for toupees.’
  52. ‘On the night a courageous gentleman from the village has kindly offered to have his head shaved and this hair will be auctioned and made into a toupee for his boss.’
  53. ‘But that doesn't mean we should pass laws banning soup kitchens
  54. toupees
  55. or jeans above a size eight.’