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toupee

[too-pay] / tuˈpeɪ /


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I stop and pick it up, its shell covered in a toupee of inch-long algae, and deliver it to its intended destination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

A less risky head adjustment — the remarkable return of the toupee.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026

Boxer Fabio Wardley posted "don't worry I'll keep it safe" with a video of the toupee on the seat beside him, while Skye Nicolson, external also posed with it on her head.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

I didn’t see a horse until 1984 when I got to work the Derby as a reporter for the first time and witnessed the wind carrying Howard Cosell’s toupee aloft.

From Salon ● May 4, 2024

It bulged a little, but not nearly as much as it had during the aftermath of the toupee liftoff.

From "Ungifted" by Gordon Korman

Plus, big banks ace an annual stress test, and more bald men shake their heads at hair transplants and toupees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

It said teams were finding new blockages each day caused by unsuitable items, but having to root out troublesome toupees from drains was a "new one for us".

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2023

George Bernard Shaw is said to have wryly observed that although he saw crutches and wheelchairs at shrines of healing, he saw no artificial limbs, glass eyes or toupees.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2019

From felted faces to crocheted toupees, that angry little mug has clearly inspired the crafting community.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018

I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their grey toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole




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