Definitions
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- noun A
hairstyle characterized by a tightlycurled locks and arounded shape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rounded thickly curled hairdo
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Examples
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; the woman who thinks afro is short for afrodisiac, having something to do "with colored people being so highly sexed"; The Glory of the Hummingbird (New York: Popular Library, 1974), p. 103. the character who thinks "exhibitors" are "preverts"; Madder Music, p. 74. the character who thinks a penal colony is a place where male chauvinists should be incarcerated I Hear America Swinging (New York: Popular Library, 1977), p. 149.
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Sometimes Matias brings in afro-cuban rhythms and his sampled voice takes on Ladysmith Black Mambazo feel.
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Black male, short afro commits a robbery in the same vicinity where a black male with a short afro is seen running.
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One guy, who is directly across from me, has a huge afro, is Asian, and is always shirtless.
The late afternoon, mid-winter garden walk. Ann Althouse 2009
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Oh, and the bassist's afro is rather intimidating.
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Of course, the style we know as afro-beat wouldn't sound anything like it without him.
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Her voice, her talent with the guitar and the natural style in which she maintained her hair-later to be dubbed "afro" - set her as an icon of the civil rights movement.
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a woman with a large, round, very orange afro is standing slightly ahead of me.
Fame and Randomness in Pie-Town kittenpie 2006
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a woman with a large, round, very orange afro is standing slightly ahead of me.
Archive 2006-07-01 kittenpie 2006
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I like I've got big curly afro, which is really -- I like to rock that when men like that.
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