Pigtail

//ˈpɪɡ.teɪl//

"Pigtail" in a Sentence (9 examples)

The junction box allows you to store the camera's pigtail inside of it.

Mary plaits her hair into a pigtail.

Mary is plaiting her hair into a pigtail.

Her pigtail fell out.

One person […] continued constantly to ply him with the very best pig-tail tobacco, which he had most carefully cut in very small pieces purposely for him.

Let padded breasts, high coat collars, stiff stocks, broad-shouldered straps, tight belts, trowser-straps and boots be consigned to the tomb of pigtails and powder.

Such a filthy spectacle as we presented I have never seen before or since, and it will perhaps give some idea of the almost superhuman dignity of Billali's appearance when I say that, coughing, half-drowned, and covered with mud and green slime as he was, with his beautiful beard coming to a dripping point, like a Chinaman's freshly-oiled pigtail, he still looked venerable and imposing.

[I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.

[…] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.”

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