Usually means: Stubble appearing late in day.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word five o'clock shadow:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. five-o'clock shadow: Merriam-Webster
  2. five o'clock shadow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. five-o'clock shadow, five-o'clock shadow: Collins English Dictionary
  4. five o'clock shadow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. five o'clock shadow: Wiktionary
  6. five o'clock shadow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. five-o'clock shadow, five-oclock shadow, five o'clock shadow, five oclock shadow: Dictionary.com
  8. Five O'Clock Shadow, Five o'clock shadow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. five-o'clock shadow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. five o'clock shadow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Five O'Clock Shadow: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (five o'clock shadow)

noun:  (informal) A beard growth that is visible late in the day on the face of a man who was clean-shaven in the morning.


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