Verb
look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards (third-person singular simple present looks as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards, present participle looking as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards, simple past and past participle looked as if one had been dragged through a hedge backwards)
(intransitive, Britain, simile, humorous, informal) To look extremely dishevelled.
Synonym: look like something the cat dragged in