(as) bald as a billiard ball
Totally bald. Balls used in billiards are shiny and smooth. My father had long hair as a teen, but now he's bald as a billiard ball. The medicine they gave me to treat the disease left me bald as a billiard ball! If you take after my side of the family, you'll be as bald as a billiard ball by 45.
bald as a coot
Totally bald. My father had long hair as a teen, but now he's bald as a coot. The medicine they gave me to treat the disease left me bald as a coot! If you take after my side of the family, you'll be as bald as a coot by 45.
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*bald as a coot
and *bald as a baby's backsidecompletely bald. (*Also: as ~.) If Tom's hair keeps receding like that, he'll be bald as a coot by the time he's thirty. Fred: Now, I'll admit my hair is thinning a little on the top, but—Jane: Thinning? You're not thinning, you're as bald as a baby's backside!
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(as) bald as a ˈcoot
having no hair on your head at all: Why did you buy him a hairbrush? He’s as bald as a coot!A coot is a black bird with a white patch on its forehead that lives on or near water.
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bald as a coot/billiard ball
Very bald indeed. The coot is a black waterbird whose white bill extends up to the forehead, making it appear to be bald. Indeed, this bird was already being called a balled cote in the thirteenth century. The later simile, to a billiard ball, has been less recorded, but since billiards was already popular in Shakespeare’s day it cannot be of very recent origin.
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