roached
adjEtymology From the noun roach (“curve, edge of a sail”).
1
US Having a style of trimming a horse's mane so that the hair stands straight up from the neck, similar to the natural growth pattern of a zebra's mane, or a mohawk haircut on a human.
2
Broadly Of hair: cut or styled in such a way that it stands straight up.
- Andrew Jackson, with that long head of his and that unroached forelock, looked a good deal like a neglected horse in the face.1916 March 25, Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, in Saturday Evening Post:
- Riley Caldwell, the young printer, rushed past her out of the shop, his roached hair like an Algonquin's standing high above his narrow forehead,1921, George Washington Ogden, Trail's End:
- Derived terms
- unroached