county crop

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English

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Etymology

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So called because inmates of the county prisons were given such haircuts.

Noun

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county crop (plural county crops)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A very short haircut, shaved almost bald.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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