baldie
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baldie (plural baldies)
- (informal, often derogatory) Somebody who is bald.
- (birdwatching, slang) The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).
- 2010, Bruce Squiers, “Winter's Majesty”, in Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, Mikkel Becker Shannon, editors, The Ultimate Bird Lover: Stories and Advice on Our Feathered Friends at Home and in the Wild, Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:
- They are almost always accompanied by immature bald eagles that, although about the same size as a mature baldie, have a darkened head and mottled feathers.
- (slang) A fish, the baldchin groper.
- 2019, Demelza Carlton, Ocean's Widow:
- "Baldies. Baldchin gropers. Tastiest fish I've caught this week," I replied.
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somebody who is bald — see baldy