Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US, also longhair) intellectual, aesthetic, always pej.; thus longhaired music, classical music etc; also adv. (see cite 1949).

[1862		‘Artemus Ward’ Artemus Ward, His Book 42: 1 of the long hared fellers riz up and sed he would state a few remarks. He sed man was a critter of intelleck & was movin on to a Gole. Sum men had bigger intellecks than other men had and thay wood git to the Gole the soonerest. Sum men was beests & wood never git into the Gole at all].
1871		Chicago Trib. 9 Feb. 4: FEMALE SUFFRAGE. The ‘Short-Haired Women and Long-Haired Men’ in Council. Third Annual Convention or the Illinois Woman’s Suffrage Association.
1877		Ariz. Wkly Miner (Prescott, AZ) 4 May 6/2-3: Just listen to the braying of this long-haired jackass! [...] Let us quote another sentence rrom this long-haired egotist.
1883		Ford County Globe 20 Feb. in Miller & Snell Why the West was Wild 422: The officials who committed the unlawful act never failed to receive a laudatory puff from the long haired Missourian who edits the Times.
1888		Queenscliff Sentinel (Vic.) 14 Jan. 2/5: A long-haired scientific crank.
1888		A. Levy Reuben Sachs 23: For the long-haired type of man, the professional person of genius, this thorough-going Philistine [...] had no tolerance what ever.
1894		Mirror of Life 1 Dec. 2/4: ‘What we want to do,’ exclaimed the long-haired orator, ‘is to widen sphere of woman’s work!’.
1896		F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 57: ‘I come near gettin’ down off de platform an’ takin’ a punch at one long-haired guy in de front dat was laughin’ at me’.
1900		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 24 Oct. 2/3: [He is] frequenting the Tivoli, having jolly times with the long-haired people.
1905		J. London letter 8 June in Bamford Mystery of Jack London (1931) 189: My idea was not to modify [a speech] [...] even if I incurred the risk of being called a long-haired anarchist.
1912		A. Berkman Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 191: Think you’re on the platform haranguing the long-haired crowd?
1922		S. Lewis Babbitt (1974) 99: He doesn’t write for long-haired pikers, he writes for Regular Guys. [Ibid.] 209: I don’t care a rap for all this long-haired music.
1930		G. Milburn ‘Pie in the Sky’ in Hobo’s Hornbook 83: Long haired preachers come out every night, / Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right.
1939		Metronome Nov. 24: The jury was completely longhair, however.
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 82: What do you think about the longhaired musicians?
1947		S.J. Perelman ‘How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth’ in Keep It Crisp 140: Get in the groove, fatso. I don’t latch on to that long-hair schmaltz.
1949		Dan Burley ‘Back Door Stuff’ 23 Apr. [synd. col.] The sensational opening [...] was marred [...] by Artie Shaw insisting on going long-hair [...] playing strict saymphonic music.
1951		Green & Laurie Show Biz from Vaude to Video 172: The longhair artists of show business found the war years remarkably kind to opera.
1955		E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 205: No longhair stuff [...] Today we’re going to hear swing, and jazz, and even a little bop.
1958		F. Norman Bang To Rights 175: He then sticks the [classical] record on and the really long-haired gear comes out.
1958		J. Osborne Epitaph for George Dillon Act III: Long-hair drama.
1960		Mad mag. Jan. 49: And I flipped, ’cause I’d always thought he was ‘longhair’s.
1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 36: We don’t want to put you in that Sunday ghetto among the long-hair soul savers and arts-and-crafts farts. [Ibid.] 148: Those collections of your long-hair books.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 239: longhair. [...] a perfomer or devotee of classical or longhaired music.

2. (esp. milit.) of a man, female-looking; as in longhaired bunkie, a longhaired buddy.

1909		C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 7: Remember I am not a long-haired individual with a soft shirt and flowing bow tie [...] but a man of the world.
1952		J. Jones From Here to Eternity (1998) 193: He took the bottle and looked at the label, inspecting the longhaired dandy the way a man sweats out his hole card in a big game too rich for his blood.
1962		R. Hauser Homosexual Society 114: I’d shoot all those smart Alecs, foreigners and long-haired intellectuals who help to spread it.
1967		J. Burke Till Death Us Do Part 86: Give us a hand here, you long-haired twit.
1974		C. Loken Come Monday Morning 51: Them long-haired faggots nowdays don’t come bustin’ outta the backfield luggin’ that ole pigskin like this boy use’ to.

3. hippie adj., politically liberal.

1968		P. Green Native Son (rev.) in Black Drama Scene iii: A crazy bunch of radicals and poets and long-haired folks.
1970		Harper’s Mag. Aug. 45: What is the real offense of a long-haired peacenik who holds his fingers in a V as the hardhats come marching by?
1981		S. King Cujo (1982) 42: They were all a bunch of long-haired [...] asshole pinko fucksticks.
1994		F. Mac Anna Ship Inspector 98: Take a good hard look at your brother, that’s what happens to you when you spend all your time listening to long-haired trash.