sweptback
Slanted toward tail
Sweptback describes something angled backward from its point of attachment.
The term appears most often in aviation, where sweptback wings angle rearward from the fuselage to improve performance at high speeds: the sweptback wings of a fighter jet.
Hair can also be sweptback, combed or styled away from the face: his sweptback gray hair.
High-fronted upswept hairstyle
- quiffUpswept frontal hairstyle
- ducktailSlicked-back men's hairstyle
- rockabillyHillbilly-influenced early rock
- greaserMachinery lubricator or fifties tough
bouffant · coiffure · gel · brilliantine · mane · tresses · Elvis · fifties
pompadour
High-fronted upswept hairstyle
- quiffUpswept frontal hairstyle
- ducktailSlicked-back men's hairstyle
- rockabillyHillbilly-influenced early rock
greaser · bouffant · coiffure · gel · brilliantine · mane · tresses · Elvis · fifties · retro
streamlined
Made smooth and efficient
slipstream · aerofoil · fin · supersonic · transonic · mach · glide · tailfin · fuselage · nacelle
sweptbackforward
Onward in direction
straight · unswept · perpendicular · delta · conventional
back, sweep, sweeping, swept, sweeper, sweeps, sweepers, sweepingly, backswept