Meaning

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, derogatory or humorous) An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.
2. (slang, derogatory) A young or naive supporter of social-justice causes.

Example Sentences

I have memories from a young age in which my father is yelling about "blue hairs" and their inability to drive. And everyone remembers that scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in which the old lady cannot see over the steering wheel and is swerving down the road.

“Anyone can join,” O'Neill says. “We have age ranges from children to blue hairs.”

He'd recently swiped the little orange bottle of OxyContin from the old hag he often watched on Tuesday nights when her cold, indifferent middle-aged daughter played bingo with the other bluehairs from the strip-mall salon she frequented.

Trump is demolishing America's institutions - including the media FAKE, FAKE, FAKE - and this chucklehead is worried about offending a bluehair.

Americans thinking it was based to worship capitalism to own the bluehairs while bitching about big tech silencing them was so embarrassing.

There's a sizeable cohort of gullible bluehairs who'd protest outside a lake if someone told them carp were an anti-trans hate group.

Word Forms

• bluehairs
• blue hair
• blue-hair

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