a person who temporarily shaves their head after an event - pleasing or painful.
! not to be confused with a certain hair condition or certain charities.
A: LOL look at that guy/girl, they're bald as fuck!
B: no, they're just a short topper.
A: what?
B: y'know, someone who shaves their head to restart life and--
A: LOL what the fuck?
B: short topper.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)