"pompa-hawk"
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu May 10 19:06:27 UTC 2012
I guess the other contender was "mo-dour".
LH
On May 10, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Tom Brady's new hair style, as "dubbed" by TMZ, according to today's
> Boston Globe.
>
> But did TMZ coin this? Urban Dictionary claims to have 2003, and a
> reference to Kim Jong Il's hair in 2008. (Wikipedia's picture
> definitely shows an asymmetric cut, high in the middle.) Then Google
> has nothing until 2006 and 2007, when there are a few sightings
> outside Urban Dictionary. Nothing in Google Books.
>
> Joel
>
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