Well attestedNamed from the place
Hoxton fin
noun · first attested 2000s
A London district became shorthand for a haircut, and then for a whole social type.
A fauxhawk: hair kept short at the sides and gelled into a ridge along the top of the head.
51.5340°N -0.0850°W · Q1998354
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 2000s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Hoxton
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Hoxton fin
Hoxton, in the East End of London, was the center of the city's art and club scene in the early 2000s, and the cut spread from there. British writers used Hoxton fin as a way of placing a young man socially without describing him at all. The area had been a furniture making district for a century before artists moved into its cheap warehouse space in the 1990s.
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