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locs

locs

8.6
Long hair that people twist or braid into rope-like strands
  • noun
  • /lɑks/
translation icon : dreadlocks
  • After several months of care, his locs had grown thick and long.

Examples

  • Dressed in Locs and Khaki suits.

    All Eyez on Me (2017)

  • She styled her hair into beautiful locs for the festival.

  • Braiding her hair into locs took several hours, but the result was stunning.

Synonyms

braid
vslocs
47 1.3

A hairstyle made by weaving three or more strands of hair together

refers to forming rope-like strands instead of a crossed interlaced weave
dread
vslocs
9 6.5

A hairstyle of long hair twisted into rope-like strands

includes styles made by twisting, matting, or braiding into rope-like strands
twist
vslocs
8 4.0

A hairstyle where hair is wrapped or braided into small sections

is used when sections become rope-like rather than just turned together

Surface Forms

locs plural
loc singular

Morphology

locs = lock (semi-transparent) = lock + s

This is a regular plural of 'lock' meaning a strand of hair, but the hairstyle sense is specialized and the spelling 'locs' is nonstandard.

Etymology

Locs comes from the older word lock meaning a small bunch of hair and from the hairstyle name dreadlocks. Think of hair 'locked' together into rope-like strands, which is why locs means that hairstyle.