A man's hairstyle, associated especially with the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides and tapered at the nape.
Example sentencesExamples
His hair was combed back into a perfect ducktail, and on top two tiny curls fell from his pomp.
Melissa is a bit more punk, androgynous in her dyed-blond ducktail.
The ducktail was adopted lovingly by Hollywood to represent the wild youth of the Fifties.
Leather jackets and ducktails make up for any sense of direction or motivation among these characters as they meander through high school, girls, and the soda shop.
Definition of ducktail in US English:
ducktail
nounˈdəktāl
North American
A man's hairstyle, associated especially with the 1950s, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides and tapered at the nape.
Example sentencesExamples
Leather jackets and ducktails make up for any sense of direction or motivation among these characters as they meander through high school, girls, and the soda shop.
Melissa is a bit more punk, androgynous in her dyed-blond ducktail.
The ducktail was adopted lovingly by Hollywood to represent the wild youth of the Fifties.
His hair was combed back into a perfect ducktail, and on top two tiny curls fell from his pomp.