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whiskers

ˈwɪskərz
WordNet
Figure with whiskers, two bicycle wheels at the bottom right.
Figure with whiskers, two bicycle wheels at the bottom right.
  1. (n) whiskers
    the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face
Idioms

Between you and me and the cat's whiskers - This idiom is used when telling someone something that you want them to keep secret.

By a whisker - If you do something by a whisker, you only just manage to do it and come very near indeed to failing.

Cat's whiskers - Something excellent is the cat's whiskers.

Within a whisker - If you come within a whisker of doing something, you very nearly manage to do it but don't succeed.

Usage in the news

Season Two of IFC's Whisker Wars. multichannel.com

Enid's men are invited to put down their razors and grow out their whiskers to benefit local charities. enidnews.com

On 'Whisker Wars,' a crisis of manhood . ashingtonpost.com

I recently discovered eShave, a luxury brand dedicated to scraping the whiskers off men's faces in style. allure.com

Whiskers also does cat adoptions of its own through its cageless Rescue Cat Ranch. nytimes.com

Lucy Harrell and her tugboat Whisker III. kitsapsun.com

Call for OCR cut a whisker away. nzherald.co.nz

DelBene by a whisker in 1st District: Poll. blog.seattlepi.com

Oil prices a cat's whisker over $99, not high enough says Iran. brainerddispatch.com

We developed a three-dimensional model of the rat whisker array. theatlantic.com

Long Whiskers , Tall Tales. northernexpress.com

In and Around Manhattan With Sighs and Whiskers . nytimes.com

Mark your calendars for the 3rd annual Wine and Whiskers event to benefit the Rimrock Humane Society this Saturday November 3 at the Billings Depot. kbear.com

'Whisker Wars' not exactly a cut above . standard.net

"Whisker Wars" (9 pm Friday) may be the nadir of IFC's ironic, hipster-targeted programming. standard.net

Usage in scientific papers

Behavior of such whiskers is the main ob ject to investigate in the following sections 3 and 4.
Random Wandering Around Homoclinic-like Manifolds in Symplectic Map Chain

In this section, we analyze the modulational instability of spatially uniform oscillating solutions (tori) of the reduced maps derived in the previous section and introduce whiskered tori, that is, the hyperbolic structure near periodic manifolds.
Random Wandering Around Homoclinic-like Manifolds in Symplectic Map Chain

We observe that whiskers retain a homoclinic-like structure in the case the amplitude of the uniformly oscillating solution exceeds slightly the critical value.
Random Wandering Around Homoclinic-like Manifolds in Symplectic Map Chain

As P ≤ N , this could only happen if N ≈ M , in thin whiskers with diameter of order √M much smaller than the length N .
Glassy phases in layered Ising magnets with random interlayer exchange

Absolute magnitudes are indicated by the angle of the whisker, with θ = 9Mr mag−1 deg.
Stellar Locus Regression: Accurate Color Calibration, and the Real-time Determination of Galaxy Cluster Photometric Redshifts

Usage in literature

You're a man now, with whiskers and a busted lip. "The Last Spike" by Cy Warman

Both the black-whiskered man and Connors had disappeared. "Molly McDonald" by Randall Parrish

Janus always consulted his whiskers when in doubt, and among the graying hairs usually found that for which he sought. "The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills" by Janet Aldridge

Beyond them lay a regiment of fierce, be-whiskered countrymen from the lower sections of Mississippi. "The Victim" by Thomas Dixon

Dowie's whiskers broke the back of Dowieism. "Damn!" by Henry Louis Mencken

If this isn't my old friend Billy Whiskers! "Billy Whiskers' Adventures" by Frances Trego Montgomery

And yet the traveller damns his straps and whiskers. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920" by Various

Your whiskers are growing in! "Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters" by Henry Wallace Phillips

She likes my whiskers, too. "The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)" by Various

To see Dan was to see Whiskers; to see Whiskers was to see Dan. "Tenting To-night" by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Usage in poetry
But if he dressed up respectably
And let his whiskers grow,
How like this Big Baboon would be
To Mister So-and-so!
His tangled Hebrew beard,
Which to his waist came down,
Was now a pair of whiskers fair -
His name ADOLPHUS BROWN!
Ah! if I could have whiskers grow,
I'd let you have my curls;
But what's the use of wishing it–
Boys never can be girls.
OH, if you were a little boy,
And I was a little girl–
Why you would have some whiskers grow
And then my hair would curl.
When it was — " Don't you take no sail off 'er"
The Ol' Man'd say,
Beard an' whiskers starin'
Stiff with frozen spray —
A whiskered, beady-eyes monster, grisly and grim of hue;
Savage and slinking and silent, born of the dark and dirt;
Dazed by the glare and the glitter, it wavered a moment or two -
Then like a sinister shadow, it vanished… 'neath Millie's skirt.