Usually means: Twisted locks of natural hair.
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  1. dreads: Merriam-Webster
  2. dreads: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dreads: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dreads: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dreads: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dreads, dreads: Wordnik
  7. dreads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dreads: Wiktionary
  9. dreads: Dictionary.com
  10. dreads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. dreads: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dreads: Legal dictionary

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  1. dreads: Encyclopedia

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  1. dreads: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dreads (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. dreads: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dreads)

noun:  (colloquial) dreadlocks
noun:  A Rastafarian person.

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