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n. - Beard grown down the right and left surfaces of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off).

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  • It's a new wig, and new eyebrows, side-whiskers and beard to match.
  • He was bareheaded, his white side-whiskers fluttering in the breeze.
  • It was clicking its tongue and shaking its side-whiskers like a great overgrown hamster.
  • Ransome was a burly man with the heavy, fashionable side-whiskers, more grey than black.
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