backcomb

See also: back-comb

English

Alternative forms

back-comb

Etymology

Verb

backcomb (third-person singular simple present backcombs, present participle backcombing, simple past and past participle backcombed)

To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look; tease.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 5,
  Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.

Translations

to hold hair and comb it towards the head

German: toupieren (de)
Greek: ξαίνω (el) (xaíno), κρεπάρω (el) (krepáro)

Hungarian: tupíroz (hu)

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