Citations:TERF bangs

English citations of TERF bangs and terf bangs

Noun: "(slang) short, straight, blunt-edged bangs, especially when paired with a bob on a woman"

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• 2017, "How To Dress Like an Art Hoe", Jerk Magazine (Syracuse University), March 2017, page 67:

  TERF bangs: My tumblr post critiquing modern beauty standards got over 100,000 reblogs, but it's so important to uphold these values in day-to-day life, too. I don't even know what TERF stands for!

• 2018, Douglas Lain, The Bash Bash Revolution, unnumbered page:

  The logo for the game, the thumbnail, is a panel from an old comic strip. A pixelated blonde woman with TERF bangs and a leopard-skin jacked shares the frame with a speech balloon. She's saying, "I'm nostalgic for what I can't remember."

• 2018, Harron Walker, "Single-Ply Toilet Paper Must Be Stopped", Out, 21 December 2018:

  Jerry Falwell. Anita Bryant. Whichever stylist gave Beyoncé TERF bangs that one time. History has seen its fair share of homophobic monsters — those vile perpetrators of hatred and terror who would rather spread fear than compassion for our communities.

• 2019, Stephanie Eckardt, "Gigi Hadid Bleached Her Eyebrows for the Sake of Prada", W Magazine, 9 January 2019:

  Otherwise, if you take a look at the campaign images, you'd be hard-pressed to recognize Hadid, who's outfitted in an oversize pink headband, topped off with Twiggy-esque mascara and a choppy, forehead-friendly hairstyle previously favored by Emma Watson, which certain corners of the internet have come to describe as "TERF bangs."

• 2019, Anonymous, quoted in Danny M. Lavery, "Help! My Stepfather Told Me He Had a Sex Dream About Me.", Slate, 6 August 2019:

  Basically, you can pry my TERF bangs from my cold, dead forehead—unless you tell me they’re actively doing harm, in which case I guess it’s headbands for a while.

• 2019, "Assimilation Advice from a fellow SoCoDu", The Piranha (Trinity College, Dublin), September 2019, page 6:

  […] tell your hair stylist at Brown Sugar you need a chin length blunt bob with terf bangs stat.