Usually means: Hair locked in rope-like strands.
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  1. dreadlocks: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. dreadlocks: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. dreadlocks: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dreadlocks: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dreadlocks, dreadlocks: Wordnik
  6. dreadlocks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dreadlocks: Wiktionary
  8. dreadlocks: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dreadlocks: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dreadlocks: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. dreadlocks: Dictionary.com
  12. dreadlocks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Dreadlocks: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. dreadlocks: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. dreadlocks: Merriam-Webster
  16. dreadlocks: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.

Similar:
dreads, rastacap, rasta hat, rasta, groundation, lemonade braids, mansion, sufferation, tatty, ital, more...

Opposite:
straight hair, short hair, cropped hair

Types:
locs, dreds, faux locs, more...

Adjectives:
long, blond, short, length, thick, black, rastafarian, matted, brown, blonde, red



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Similar:
dreads, rastacap, rasta hat, rasta, groundation, lemonade braids, mansion, sufferation, tatty, ital, more...

Opposite:
straight hair, short hair, cropped hair

Types:
locs, dreds, faux locs, more...

Adjectives:
long, blond, short, length, thick, black, rastafarian, matted, brown, blonde, red



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