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🧑‍🦱 A rope-like hairstyle 🧑‍🦱 To twist hair
to dreadlock

to dreadlock

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Twist or mat hair into rope-like strands
  • verb
  • /ˈdrɛdˌlɑk/
translation icon : hacer rastas

Examples

  • PLEASE! Goddam patchouli-smelling dreadlocked mother.

    Blog text (31)

  • The Pieterson figure has been replaced by a vrot, dreadlocked sot still clutching a bottle.

    Academic text (2007)

  • They made a great if mismatched team: him tall and rail-thin, skin the color of tarnished copper, dreadlocked; and her short, white, round, and old enough to be his mother.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • His superb acting is always convincing whether he is playing a realistic dreadlocked Jesus, a sultry bank executive, a conscious lawyer, an intensely tender lover, a bitter villain, or a psycho killer.

    Blog text (17)

  • She decided to dreadlock her hair after being inspired by a friend's unique style.

  • He learned how to dreadlock his long hair using a special twisting technique.

  • Many people choose to dreadlock their hair as a form of personal expression.

Surface Forms

dreadlock infinitive
dreadlocked past
dreadlocked past participle
dreadlocking present participle
dreadlocks third person singular

Etymology

Dreadlock (verb) means to twist or mat hair into long, rope-like strands called dreadlocks. The name combines dread ('fear' or deep respect) with lock ('a piece of hair'), so the action makes a hairstyle that can show cultural or spiritual meaning.