blue-hair

noun

plural blue-hairs

informal

: a person with blue hair : an elderly woman with white or gray hair that has been tinted blue

And even the blue-hairs in Boca have heard all those stories about Donatella's husband's being Gianni's boyfriend before she married him.

—Cathy Horyn, Vanity Fair, June 1997

The crowd, mostly blue-hairs and college kids, buzzed.

—Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

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