frosted tips
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.02 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hairstyle in which the hair forms spikes, the tips of which are bleached pale blond, forming a contrast to the color of the rest of the hair.
noun
A type of surgical laser lens that has frosted edges in order to diffuse the radiation profile.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see frosted, tip.
Example Sentences
- "Then again, they may then place restrictions on my hair such that I could not get highlights or frosted tips."
- "“The dude's got a rainbow Mohawk with frosted tips,” my brother said calmly."
- "She just broke up with some total douche bag loser with frosted tips.” “Frosted tips? Like boy-band frosted tips?” “Like George Michael, circa 1988 frosted tips. She showed me his picture on her phone—total loser.""
- "These are E. olitor, which is similar to E. melanogaster but smaller in size, with dark greyish-brown upperparts with pale frosted tips; and E. miletus, which is similar in size and colour to E. cachinus but with a relatively shorter tail and higher skull profile."
- "Males are generally rich warm or reddish-brown with darker streaking on mantle and back, bright pink rump and underparts, and faint (not prominent) wingbar; long Supercilium to sides of nape is pale pink with pale silvery or frosted tips, with cheeks and ear-coverts similar."
- "Their gray fur has a reddish tinge with whitish frosted tips, hence the name "hoary.""