hairpulling

noun

hairpulling

noun

Etymology From hair + pulling.

1

The pulling of one's own or another's hair.

Shirley, a 42-year-old married homemaker, presented for evaluation of compulsive hairpulling.2006, Nancy C. Andreasen, Donald W. Black, Introductory textbook of psychiatry:

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