topknot
Example Sentences
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She arrived in the window in a PBS T-shirt with a stretched out neck, that brown hair piled into a messy topknot, talking fast and sharp and bright.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023
His topknot had just been cut off as a forfeit for losing out on a challenge to a colleague at the direct sales company for which he worked in 2018.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2022
Pulling by the topknot: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proclaimed that “North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles” in defiance of the U.N.
From Washington Post • May 28, 2019
One of them wears a topknot, another checks her pedometer.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019
Kat had her arms folded and her hair was tied in what girls call a topknot.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.