phrase[ plural ] informal short fordreadlocks: a hairstyle in which the hair hangs in long, thick, twisted pieces: They wore their hair in dreads. Alex was the cool guy with dreads. Of course you can swim with dreads. The historian wears his hair in short, shoulder-length dreads. I wanted to have dreads like my dad. Synonym
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dreadnoun(HAIR) Examples I had giant flared jeans and blonde dreads down to my shoulders. Her hair is part shaved and part dreads. Some of the Black women in my life have dreads, and some of them straighten their hair.