bluehair

English

Etymology

blue +‎ hair, from the blue rinse formerly popular with older women.

Noun

bluehair (plural bluehairs)

  1. (slang, derogatory) An elderly woman.
    • Lola Newmar, Devlin's Beast (page 33)
      He'd recently swiped the little orange bottle of OxyContin from the old hag he often watched on Tuesday nights when her cold, indifferent middle-aged daughter played bingo with the other bluehairs from the strip-mall salon she frequented.
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