Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bald-headed adj.

1. (US black) deliberately deceptive, underhand, e.g. a bald-headed lie [one who makes no effort to mask their bald head].

[US]‘Mark Twain’ Roughing It 156: I wonder if they [i.e. stage drivers] bequeathed that bald-headed anecdote to their successors, the railroad brakemen.
[US]E. Nye Forty Liars (1888) 125: These bald-headed pill makers who are willing to shield the assassin in order to pat their own inordinate vanity on the back.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Apr. 16/3: This is certainly a new and noble version of a very baldheaded, and probably untruthful yarn, and we fancy the Roman lady, after thanking her hostess for the information touching the Irish D.’s, hastily skipped off and informed the rest of her friends that old mother Gracchi had ‘got ’em again,’ and fancied she was chased by a new style of snake called the Fenian.
[US]Bayler & Carnes Last Man Off Wake Island 316: The stuff the major had was inscribed with a bald-headed lie to the effect that each note was worth a half-guilder.
[Aus]‘Nino Culotta’ Gone Fishin’ 79: Beggin’ your pardon, sir, but me mother told me to tell you you’re a bald-headed old bastard, sir.

2. unadorned, shameless.

[US]Cincinnati Enquirer 7 Sept. 10/7: The masher can be either male or female, traveling on their beauty, shape or talent, and sometimes on all three. The mash is the party willing to be mashed, and who is generally made to pay for the pleasure of the mash in a good round sum. Mashing is the attempt of both to succeed in their object. The female masher monopolizes the most of the mashes. The process can be witnessed in its most bald-headed form almost any night over the Rhine.

3. (US black) stupid.

[US]J. Harrison ‘Negro English’ in Anglia VII 277: To be de ball-headest creetur = to be the biggest fool.

4. (US) bare, hairless, shining white.

[US](con. 1969) N.L. Russell Suicide Charlie 96: Man, those baldheaded pussys. The fucking slits really do run the other way. Fucking aye.

5. (US black) stupid, foolish [such a person has nothing ‘on top’].

[US]C. Himes ‘Make with the Shape’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 112: But did she have to get herself baldheaded?
[US]S. King Stand (1990) 754: Jesus-hairy-ole-baldheaded-Christ! [...] Are you lying to me, you fuckin fairy.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

bald-headed bastard (n.)

the penis.

[US] in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 444: It’s as long as your arm an’ big as your thigh, / An’ the bald-headed bastard ain’t got but one eye.
bald-headed butter (n.) [the pre-industrial era of butter manufacture]

a portion of butter in which there are no hairs.

[UK]Cornish Teleg. 1 Nov. 4/7: American News [...] A guest at a western hotel, finding a long hair in the butter, ordered the waiter to bring him some ‘bald-headed butter’.
[UK]J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.
bald-headed hermit (n.) (also bald-headed champ, …friar, ...god of love, …sailor, baldpate friar, bald pate, baldy, hoary-headed hermit) [the glans penis which, in uncircumcised men, ‘hides away’ beneath the foreskin and resembles the monk’s bald tonsure]

the penis, esp. an uncircumcised penis.

[UK] M. Parker ‘Pope’s Pedigree’ in Chappell Roxburghe Ballads (1874) II 256: The Nun she chanc’d to stumble, and laying bare her Rump, / The ball’d pate Fryer bob’d her, / and so begat a Monk.
[UK] ‘The Riddle’ in Playford Pills to Purge Melancholy II 72: ’Tis a Fryer with a bald-Head, [...] It is Gun that shoots point-blank; / It hits betwixt a Woman’s Flank.
[UK] in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 72: ’Tis a Fryer with a Bald-Head, / A Staff to beat a Cuckold Dead. [Ibid.] 196: If you will not let black Maggy alone, Beshrew she will take you by th’ Bald-Pate.
[Scot]Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 17: Dinner Sentiments [...] May our Bald-headed Hermit, when he enters his cell, fervently pour forth his Essence of Devotion.
[UK]‘Rummy Toasts’ in Flare-Up Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 296: The bald-headed priest, who goes in head foremost, and leaves his wig at the door.
[US]Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 31 Jan. n.p.: Here is to the hoary-headed hermit, who never enters his mossy cell without dropping a tear.
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
[UK]Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 102: Éculse, f. The penis; ‘the bald-headed hermit’.
[UK]A. Crowley Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 23: Take out that bald-headed hermit! (he interrupted himself) Whack it up! Wollop it in!
[US](con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 295: I was talking about the bald-headed sailor.
[US] in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 673: Rise up, Baldy, bold and brave, / Between these two white thighs you shall dig your grave.
[US]D. Lypchuk ‘A dirty little story’ in eye mag. 8 July 🌐 After he cleaned up the kitchen, he admired her crumpet and had some sugar bowl pie. Then he stuck his bald-headed hermit into her artichoke again.
[US]People (Sydney) 5 July 65/3: The holy humper - who’s got six sprogs - also reckons it’s A-OK for chicks to get down on their knees and pray before the bald-headed god of love.
[UK]Metro 22 May 37/2: Shouldn’t we be celebrating the schmuck? Bigging up the bald-headed mouse? Euologising the yoghurt-spitting sausage?
bald-headed lump (n.) [SE baldheaded, i.e. nothing ‘on’ the food]

(US tramp) a parcel of food containing only the basics, with no ‘sweets’ such as cake or pie.

[US]Irwin Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 21: Bald-headed Lump.—A ‘lump’ or package of food given a tramp which contains nothing but coarse, hearty food, without pie, cake, or other sweets.
[US]J. Conroy World to Win 88: You little rat! Bring me back a bald-headed lump, will you? Robbin’ the mail, eh? Where’s the rest of it?
bald-headed mouse (n.)

(US gay) the erect penis.

[US]‘Jennifer Blowdryer’ Modern English 72: genitalia: male (n): Bald headed mouse.
[US]R.O. Scott Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 bald-headed mouse: synonym for erection of the penis.
bald-headed row (n.) (also bald brigade, baldheaded club, baldheaded brigade, baldheaded department, baldheaded seats)

the men, stereotyped as old, who take the front row of a burlesque or similar show.

[US]Cincinnati Dly Star (OH) 31 July 4/3: Lydia Thompson calls the bald headed row of old men in the front seat ‘Kind Words,’ because they never dye.
Olean Democrat (NY) 18 July 1/5: You are attacking bald-headed men [...] because they get powerful opera glasses and sit in the front seat at the female minstrel performances [...] A day or two of sin to the old offender on bald headed row does not matter.
[US]Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 25 Sept. 2/2: A good deal of Louise has been seen for the money by the various baldheaded brigades of the country,aud she wants to give her solid charms a rest.
[US]Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 23 Oct. 2/2: His manager, Joe Levy, President of the bald-headed club.
[[UK]Music Hall & Theatre Rev. 23 Mar. 85/2: [W]e must take exception to the paper's statement about bald-pated roues paying half-a-guinea for seats at halls in the West End].
Olathe Mirror (KS) 2 June 3/6: About the only thing left to him now is the ‘bald-headed’ row in the parquette when there is a ‘bald legged’ show.
[UK]Mirror of Life 6 Apr. 14/1: Their escapades at Saratoga, Lake George, and Newport are still the talk of the inane bald heads who occupy seats in the front row.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Sept. 32/1: Now this is a song for the Bald Brigade / That carries a gold-knobbed stick, / And gathers at halls of the leg-show grade / Where Totties spring forth and kick.
[Aus]Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 5 Oct. 2/3: [T]he one who wears petticoats turns somersaults and stands on her hands, quite long enough for bald-headed Johnniedom to count the frills on her unmentionables.
[US]K. McGaffey Sorrows of a Show Girl Ch. iv: If this person would [...] stop trying to be a very dear friend to the whole bald-headed department during the opening chorus, she’d be all right and might get a job with a medicine show.
[US]Wood & Goddard Dict. Amer. Sl. 4: bald-headed row. Front row at a girlie leg show.
[US]‘Dean Stiff’ Milk and Honey Route 151: Silk stocking slummers have just about monopolized the baldheaded seats in the pit.
[US]W. Winchell On Broadway 3 Apr. [synd. col.] Flank movement was what drew the bald heads to the front rows at the burlee-q.
[US](con. 1911) Green & Laurie Show Biz from Vaude to Video 61: He changed the name of his show in rehearsal, The Belle of Bald-Headed Row to Miss Nobody From Starland.
[US]‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 111: Phony as the baldheaded row in the conventions away from home.

In phrases

wrestle with the bald champ (v.)

to masturbate.

[US]‘Mike Chuck’ Master List 🌐 a.k.a. the masturbator list [...] wrestle with the bald champ.