a headpiece made of natural or synthetic hair usually worn to cover a bald area
the cancer patient started wearing a wig after losing all of her hair from chemotherapy
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Recent Examples of wigDrag performance, with its abundance of wigs, campy makeup and death drops, is ready-made for Halloween.—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025 The edit suite looks like a dorm room, full of fanboy figurines like a life-size Funko Pop of Stranger Things’ protagonist Eleven (played by Millie Bobby Brown) that guards the front door in her blonde wig, clutching her favorite snack, Eggo waffles.—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025 More than halfway through the song’s video, Teasdale appears behind a plastic screen, pulling off the massive wig to reveal her face — and a body covered in what looks like blood.—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025 Curtis Mueller designed lighting, Evan Eason designed sound, and wig/makeup designer Peter Herman created a different wig for every time Masha steps onstage.—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wig
Han told the outlet that the bob was done partially using a hairpiece and partially using Tung's hair, the latter of which was cut just at the front, while the back of her real hair was tucked into a U-line wig.
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Michelle Lee,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
That reliable iron lump brings the 5,000-pound car to 60 mph from a standstill in about 10 seconds, not so brisk a pace as to blow off a bad hairpiece.
These things are — according to Torres’s theories — navy blue, and the threat of that color’s oppressive manifestations lurks in the show like an under-the-bed monster wearing a toupee and a bad suit.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
Robert Greenberg, a former hairstylist who tried to get rich off of everything from mail-order toupees to roller skates, founded the company with his son Michael in 1992 and the family still owns a 12% stake.
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