Usually means: Chemical process to curl hair.
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  1. perming: Merriam-Webster
  2. perming: Collins English Dictionary
  3. perming: Vocabulary.com
  4. perming: Wordnik
  5. perming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. perming: Wiktionary
  7. perming: Dictionary.com
  8. perming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. perming: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perming: Encyclopedia

(Note: See perm as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (perm)

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]
▸ Also see perm


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