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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hair</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hackitude.html" title="hackitude"/><link rel="next" href="hairball.html" title="hairball"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hair</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hackitude.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hairball.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hair"/><dt xmlns="" id="hair"><b>hair</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [back-formation from <a href="hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a>] The complications
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that make something hairy. “<span class="quote">Decoding <a href="../T/TECO.html"><i class="glossterm">TECO</i></a>
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commands requires a certain amount of hair.</span>” Often seen in the
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phrase <span class="firstterm">infinite hair</span>, which connotes
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extreme complexity. Also in <span class="firstterm">hairiferous</span> (tending to promote hair growth):
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“<span class="quote">GNUMACS elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing
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modes.</span>” “<span class="quote">Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right.</span>” (or
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just: “<span class="quote">Hair squared!</span>”)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hackitude.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hairball.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hackitude </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hairball</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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