slut strand

English

Noun

slut strand (plural slut strands)

1. (vulgar, slang) A hairstyle that features two strands of hair pulled down around one’s face and the rest pulled back.
   • 2015 May 3, Ali Thair, Debate Magazine‎^[1], volume 2015, number 7, Auckland Student Movement at AUT, Vox Pops Confessions, page 45:

     Describe your biggest haircut “sin.” How old were you when you sported it?
     Slut strands in year 8

   • 2017 March 5, Meg Bellemore, “Bella Hadid Has Decided This ‘90s Hair Trend Is Back For Good”, in Elle, retrieved 2022-02-10:

     You know, the wet-look tendrils we affectionately referred to as ‘slut strands’ in the ‘90s.

   • 2018 July 27, Lady Avondale, “Dating the women of Auckland: From Westies to Shore Girls and beyond”, in The New Zealand Herald:

     Known for her signature look of huge hoe hoops and slut strands, the Westie gal can be identified by the presence of a dreamcatcher, which will either be tattooed on her body, or hanging from the rearview mirror of her 1993 Mitsubishi Lancer that smells of stale cigarettes and Impulse.

   • 2019 May 8, RAM‎^[2], volume 2019, number 3, Lincoln University Students’ Association, 1990’s, page 32:

     No updo or half-up style was complete without a pair of skinny ‘slut strands’ hanging on either side of your face back in the day

   • 2022 February 10, Madison Malone Kircher, “Why Slut Strands Are the Hairdo of the Olympic Games”, in Slate, retrieved 2022-02-10:

     You might have noticed that Kim, along with much of the field, competes with two distinct strands of hair pulled outside her helmet on either side of her face. […] [A]mong freeskiers and snowboarders, the style has another name. They’re known, affectionately, as “slut strands.”