Como dizer "Cabelo (gíria)" em inglês

Simon Vasconcelos 15 404
Barnet

"Chatshow host David Letterman cheekily asked the mayor of London how long he had been cutting his own hair when he appeared on the Late Show this week. We consider some disastrous moments in the history of Boris's barnet." The Guardian

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Telma Regina 9 68 608
Checking where he got this, it's from The Guardian, a british newspaper and barnet is a british slang for hair.
Barnet Fair is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Hair!
The term 'Barnet Fair', normally shortened to 'Barnet', has become rhyming slang for 'hair'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnet_Fair
Thomas 7 63 299
What is your question, Simon?

Letterman was telling the mayor that he had a bad haircut, that his hair looked awful.

The only slang term I can think of for hair is "mane" (juba). It is a compliment and implies that the hair is long and beautiful like the mane of a lion.
Thomas 7 63 299
By the way, old (funny) slang for "to get a haircut" is to get one's ears lowered. My dad used the phrase often.
Zumstein 1 31 447
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