What is a fade in slang?

What is a fade in slang? In slang, fade has several meanings. In haircut slang, a fade means gradual tapering of hair from short at sides to longer on top, with types like low fade, high fade, skin fade, popular in barber culture. In fighting slang, especially in US, fade can mean a fight or to fight, as in catch a fade meaning to get into a fight, want the fade means want to fight, similar to scrap. In drug slang, fade can mean losing high or coming down. In general slang, to fade someone means to ignore, dismiss, or leave, and to fade away means to disappear. In music, fade is gradual decrease in volume at end of song. In basketball slang, fadeaway is shot while moving backward. In street slang, fade can also mean to lose influence. So slang meaning depends on context, whether haircut, fighting, or ignoring. In fighting context, fade is similar to scrap meaning fight. In barber context, fade is stylish haircut. Context clarifies, for example he wants a fade in barbershop means haircut, he wants a fade in argument means fight.