A meme started on a day of June 2009 on the Napalm Death last.fm shoutbox by the user called "Dissektion", who sadly got banned a few months later for unknown reasons.

non-existant. haircuts do not make people emo. style does not make people emo. just because you may have what is percieved to be an emo-haircut, does not mean your emo. so grow the fuck up.

music genre that has being around for a long time but wasn't mainstream/known for all ppl till MTV start putting it on the spot... Of course not the real emo music just a *light* version... Let's be honest we all gotta admit that this has become a trend, emo ppl try so hard to make themselves look unique on pages like myspace or vampirefreaks... but in the end you're pretty much of the same. Emo trend is so full with cliches like haircut, cutting your wrists (not all), whining about ur life, being bisexual... like really how many have I read "I'm bisexual deal with that" yeah right like if not most of emo kids are "bisexual" or have kiss another guy... you're not being unique, special, individualist or rebelliuos you're just pretty much being part of a big trend just like Punk was a coupple years ago.. and emo haters stop it, there's no point on talking crap about a "trend" bcus emo is that just a trend, in the end it'll go away and there'll be left only the ppl that where there from day #1 and rest of them will move on to the next trend until day actually grew up

its like a normal haircut... just 'down under'

When someone has short hair that has grown a bit too long and it sticks out on the sides like the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren, who was bald with two sticky-outy regions of hair on either side of his head. This happens with normal people who have full heads of hair when their ears make it stick out over the sides.

alternative lifestyle haircut (n) – A haircut or style that indicates its owner leads a life contrary to that of the conservative or heterosexual world. Also known as “the significant lesbian haircut,” the acquiring of an alternative lifestyle haircut is often seen as a rite of passage into lesbian adulthood, even if it is not maintained after the initial cut. Like a bat mitzvah, but on your head. Examples include: the mohawk, the fauxhawk, the mullet, the sidesweep, and the Tegan and Sara.

The term was coined by Autostraddle.com and has since become a common collloquialism.

Any male that has his hair styled like Justin Bieber has. This is a recognizable haircut that is known to request attention in the most vulgar of thinkable ways, similar to the female counterpart of wearing a moist, white shirt with no bra or anything comparable underneath it. This person has chosen for this haircut with an obvious, yet deluded desire to obtain girls' appeal and often ends up as one of the most extensively homosexual buttholes within at least a 23,019 mile radius from their given location. In short, someone who inappropriately desires to be as similar to Justin Bieber in appearence and reputation as possible, yet not admitting it.