longhair

Plural: longhairs

Noun

• An intellectual or person with refined, often highbrow, tastes.
• A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie.
• A person with a deep interest in the classical arts, especially music.
• A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.
• A cat with hair longer than the norm.

Adj

• Concerning or characteristic of classical music.

Examples

• dismissed as just another band of longhairs at the height of longhair bands
• I would rather see a musical, but my wife, who loves longhair music, is dragging me to the symphony again.
• The LONGHAIR of the Words With Friends club always used the most obscure, academic words.

Antonyms

shorthair

Related Words

haircut band, highbrow, long-haired, shorthaired