ingrown hair

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   a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation)

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Questions about ingrown hair

What does ingrown hair mean?

ingrown hair means "a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation)".

Is ingrown hair a common word?

ingrown hair 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.