Usually means: Hair twisted into rope-like strands.
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  1. dreadlock: Merriam-Webster
  2. dreadlock: Vocabulary.com
  3. dreadlock: Wordnik
  4. dreadlock: Wiktionary
  5. dreadlock: Dictionary.com
  6. Dreadlock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. dreadlock: Rhymezone
  8. dreadlock: FreeDictionary.org
  9. dreadlock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. dreadlock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dreadlock: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dreadlock)

▸ noun:  A single strand of dreadlocks.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To put (hair) into dreadlocks.

Similar:
dread, locks, dreds, dredlocks, draids, dabberlocks, daglock, D lock, diff lock, dreadnaught, more...

Opposite:
straight hair, unbraided hair, loose hair

Types:
Sisterlocks, Brotherlocks, Nubiknots, more...

Phrases:
Dreadlock Holiday, more...



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Similar:
dread, locks, dreds, dredlocks, draids, dabberlocks, daglock, D lock, diff lock, dreadnaught, more...

Opposite:
straight hair, unbraided hair, loose hair

Types:
Sisterlocks, Brotherlocks, Nubiknots, more...

Phrases:
Dreadlock Holiday, more...



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