backcomb BrE
tease AmE *

It can be helpful to lightly backcomb each section for a more secure grip.

'In the 80s, I had to backcomb my hair higher and higher ever day.

Then she began to backcomb his hair until it billowed from his head and cascaded down his back in waves of raven black volume.

When I worked with [the director] Steven Berkoff in the 1980s, I had to backcomb my hair higher and higher every day.

She hadn't had time to backcomb her long, dark red-brown hair, so she'd confined it in a black net snood and crammed the tall, pointed, broad-brimmed black hat on top of it.

I looked at him, trying to tell if he was teasing.

But every once in a while someone would start to tease.

And after a week or so she found herself able to tease.

But something else about fire teased at the back of his mind.

She looked up and met his eyes, still teasing her a little.

When other kids find out we live here, they tease them.

I not tease you or look at any other man.

He kept teasing me, and finally I let him try it.

I'll tease her a bit and see what she says.

His friends had teased him many times about taking a wife.

Not a day went by without someone teasing him about it.

I am quite a little serious thing now, and not teasing you.

It was as though a girl friend were teasing her.

After a few minutes of teasing Tom went down on her.

But right now I want you to tease me some more.

It felt too good to go on teasing us both.

He goes to a park where a group of children tease him.

He held it for a moment, teasing with his eyes.

He was teasing and let it show in his voice.

To tease me like he's been doing all my life.

Anything that makes them different is likely to lead to teasing by other children.

The thought teased him, how might things be even more different still in the future?

"It is always my business when I see a big boy teasing a little one."

Every once in a while he tried teasing me, then finally gave it up.

He told me to stop it: kids were teasing him.