hair tonic

1. 1.

   a toiletry for the hair

   Synonymshairdressinghair oilhair grease

   Broadertoiletry

   Narrowerpomade

Questions about hair tonic

What does hair tonic mean?

hair tonic means "a toiletry for the hair".

What is another word for hair tonic?

Close synonyms include hairdressing, hair oil, hair grease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hair tonic a common word?

hair tonic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.