Usually means: Temporary or permanent hair curling.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word perm:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. perm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Perm, perm: Merriam-Webster
  3. Perm, Perm, perm, perm, perm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Perm, perm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. perm: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Perm, perm: Vocabulary.com
  7. Perm, perm: Wordnik
  8. perm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Perm, perm: Wiktionary
  10. perm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. perm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. perm: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. perm, perm: Dictionary.com
  14. perm (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. perm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Perm (Russia), Perm (disambiguation), Perm (hairstyle), Perm (unit), Perm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Perm: Rhymezone
  18. perm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. PERM, Perm, perm: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. perm: FreeDictionary.org
  21. perm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Perm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Perm (Russia), Perm (hairstyle), Perm, perm: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PERM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. perm: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Perm, Perm: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See permed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc.
noun:  (informal) A permutation.
noun:  A combination of outcomes (not a permutation) that a gambler bets on in the football pools.
noun:  (computing) Permission
noun:  A historical region of northeastern Russia, corresponding to the Kama basin, a left tributary of the Volga.
noun:  A krai of Russia, near the Ural Mountains.
noun:  A city, the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia.
noun:  Short for permanent wave (“hairstyle”). [(British) A series of waves in the hair produced by means of chemical substances and heat; a perm]

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