toupee

as in wig
a headpiece made of natural or synthetic hair usually worn to cover a bald area the weatherman calmly adjusted his toupee after the wind nearly blew it off

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Recent Examples of toupee See 6 finalists for new position Starbucks is removing some drinks from its menu in March: See the full list Man busted in airport smuggling cocaine under toupee: Watch video of hairy situation Will an asteroid hit Earth? James Powel, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025 While back in July 2019, a Colombian man with a suspiciously large head was stopped by Spanish police in Barcelona, who found a massive package of drugs hidden under his toupee. Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025 The croupier, a large terrier wearing a toupee, almost seemed amused. Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024 The chain’s Umbrella Tree is an eight-foot Tannenbaum that forgoes the traditional triangle shape and instead looks more like a Festivus pole with a spruce-tip toupee. Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for toupee
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wig
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  • While shoes and wigs seemed to remain mostly intact, the crowd took the spirit of the invite to heart, jumping, screaming, and sweating to the sound of an Afrobeats visionary.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • Scarlet shouted, prowling the stage in a shimmering red outfit and gigantic wig.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 28 June 2025

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“Toupee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toupee. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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