Dutch boy

English

Dutch boy

Noun

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.