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unibrow

[ yoo-nuh-brou ]

noun

  1. a pair of eyebrows that appear to be connected because of some extra hair growing in the space between them:

    He had very bushy eyebrows, almost a unibrow.



unibrow

/ ˈːɪˌʊ /

noun

  1. informal.
    a single eyebrow created when the two eyebrows meet in the middle above the bridge of the nose
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of unibrow1

First recorded in 1985–90; uni- + brow
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Example Sentences

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He describes himself at the “Happy Days” audition as “a short Jew from New York City with a unibrow and hair down to my shoulders, confident about next to nothing in my life.”

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Culturally, changes have been made for the better, and while some may see it as unfortunate that so-called cancel culture or "wokeness" keeps people in line, whether they can find it within themselves to inherently be that way or not, I am happy to be in a place where I can sit down to write about how I'm in love with someone's unibrow and be fairly confident in my ability to do it in a way that won't bring shame to my name in 10 more years down the road.

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"Watching Season 2 of 'The Bear' with my mom was wrong because all she talks about is Claire's 'almost unibrow' and how she needs to wax her eyebrows," tweets @yung_bratty.

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"Need to know why they thought the unibrow looked okay on Claire in The Bear," writes @gracepaImer.

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Up against the air-brushed gleam of the "Sex and the City" continuation, "And Just Like That …" featuring a cast that has not aged out of toeing the line of impossible to achieve beauty standards, Claire's high-definition unibrow is exciting to see in a way that mid-30s me would not have had proper words for.

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