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n. - The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.

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  • He also said the chin whiskers are a dead giveaway.
  • "I'll pull off those antennæ you call whiskers if I can get hold of em --"
  • I was fortunate that I was trying to pluck one of those old-lady chin whiskers and not a stray eyebrow.
  • And his whiskers are the bristly kind -- straw-colored, I should say.
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