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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

chopped topped head

Hi,
could someone explain me the exact meaning of this expression?:
'Someone with a CHOPPED TOPPED HEAD and a power in the community'

Thanks in advance, Jo.
  

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: 'Someone with a CHOPPED TOPPED HEAD and a power in the community' These words were written by the singer, Bob Dylan. html In the classic photos, Fats Domino’s head is a perfect cube, thanks in part to his trademark flattop haircut. This, unique to Domino in the 1950s, became fashionable among young black males in the US and UK 30 years later.

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  • : 'Someone with a CHOPPED TOPPED HEAD and a power in the community' These words were written by the singer, Bob Dylan.
  • html In the classic photos, Fats Domino’s head is a perfect cube, thanks in part to his trademark flattop haircut.
  • This, unique to Domino in the 1950s, became fashionable among young black males in the US and UK 30 years later.
  • (In Chronicles Volume One , Dylan, describing how he envisages some future rap star rising to artistic greatness, writes that it will be someone ‘with a chopped topped head’ .
  • ) Another name for a flattop haircut is a crew-cut.
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Hi,

could someone explain me the exact meaning of this expression?:
'Someone with a CHOPPED TOPPED HEAD and a power in the community'
These words were written by the singer, Bob Dylan. I found them at -

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