• Barnet

    Origin

    Rhyming slang, from Barnet Fair.

    Full definition of barnet

    Noun

    barnet

    (plural barnets)
    1. (Cockney rhyming slang) hair (on one's head)
      • 2013, Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (in The Guardian, 13 September 2013)http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-bossBoris, it seems, is taking it in this spirit, joshing beneath his ever-redeeming barnet that Labour's opposition to military action in Syria is a fey stance that he, as GQ politician of the year, would never be guilty of.

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