(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is the fine threads that grow in a mass on your head.
I wash my ~ every night...
...a girl with long blonde ~...
I get some grey ~s but I pull them out.
N-VAR: usu supp N
2.
Hair is the short, fine threads that grow on different parts of your body.
The majority of men have ~ on their chest...
It tickled the ~s on the back of my neck.
N-VAR
3.
Hair is the threads that cover the body of an animal such as a dog, or make up a horse’s mane and tail.
I am allergic to cat ~.
...dog ~s on the carpet.
N-VAR
4.
If you let your ~ down, you relax completely and enjoy yourself.
...the world-famous Oktoberfest, a time when everyone in Munich really lets their ~ down.
PHRASE: V inflects
5.
Something that makes your ~ stand on end shocks or frightens you very much.
This was the kind of smile that made your ~ stand on end.
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
If you say that someone has not a ~ out of place, you are emphasizing that they are extremely smart and neatly dressed.
She had a lot of make-up on and not a ~ out of place.
PHRASE emphasis
7.
If you say that someone faced with a shock or a problem does not turn a ~, you mean that they do not show any surprise or fear, and remain completely calm.
No one seems to turn a ~ at the thought of the divorced Princess marrying.
PHRASE: V inflects
8.
If you say that someone is splitting ~s, you mean that they are making unnecessary distinctions between things when the differences between them are so small they are not important.
Don’t split ~s. You know what I’m getting at.
PHRASE: V inflects