five-head

five-head
 n.— «He’d begin wildly gesticulating his 6-5 frame, arching an eyebrow, perhaps lapsing into his Charles Nelson Reilly caricature, and declaring that “the flop sweat began pouring down my five-head” (Steve’s neologism for his premature baldness) and “flames began shooting out of my armpits.”» —“A fond farewell to a verbal master” by John Walters NBC Sports Feb. 19, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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