close-cropped

[ klohs-kropt ]

/ ˈkloʊsˈkrɒpt /

clipped or trimmed short: close-cropped hair.

having one's hair clipped or trimmed short: a close-cropped wrestler.

Origin of close-cropped

First recorded in 1890–95

His hair, where he still had it, was close-cropped in military style.

Pop Culture and the Recession |David Frum |April 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Faisal, a thin man in his late thirties, was easily recognizable with his black-framed glasses and close-cropped beard.

The Perils of Karachi |Steve Inskeep |October 14, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The sea of shiny starlets with perfect curls parted as McCain, in a cream-colored suit and close-cropped hair, traversed the room.

Cindy McCain on Gay Teen Suicides |The Daily Beast |October 8, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
His close-cropped brown beard with the tiny point was turning gray.

The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army |Margaret Vandercook

The close-cropped head rose, almost as a deformity, from the dark crimson robe.

Caravans By Night |Harry Hervey
Holding it in his left hand (with the gloves) he patted his close-cropped hair nervously.

Pipefuls |Christopher Morley
He had somewhere lost his miner's cap, and the yellow, close-cropped curls of his uncovered head had a strangely familiar look.

Derrick Sterling |Kirk Monroe
A middle-aged gentleman, tall and slightly bald, with close-cropped whiskers and grave, set features; who on earth could he be?

Vera Nevill |Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron