Dutch boy

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Dutch boy

Noun

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Dutch boy (plural Dutch boys)

  1. A type of bob haircut with straight bangs and hair cut horizontally above the neck.
    Synonyms: Dutch bob, Dutch cut
    • 2005, Christina Bartolomeo, Snowed In: A Novel:
      I'd remembered Ann as a wiry young woman with protruding, river green eyes and lank brown hair in a Dutch boy bob.
    • 2010, Christopher Hopkins, Staging Your Comeback:
      Do not cut horizontally unless you're going for the Dutch Boy look.
    • 2013, Felicia Lowenstein Niven, Fabulous Fashions of the 1920s, page 12:
      The Dutch boy required very straight hair.