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'fro

'fro is the contraction of afro.

Meaning of afro

Noun

afro (plural afros)

  1. A hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.
    • sheʼd been unmissable sitting in the front row of the lecture theatre with a crazy-ass afro and stunning face2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 335
  2. A person of African ancestry.
    • The Ghanaian government employed several Afros, as many of the expatriates called themselves, downplaying their Americanness, in ideological and infrastructure-building occupations.2012, Kevin K. Gates, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era, University of North Carolina Press (2006), pages 142–143
    Synonyms:
    Afrodescendant

Forms of 'fro

plural'fros

Questions about 'fro

What is 'fro the contraction of?
'fro is the contraction of afro.

Words near 'fro in the dictionary

  1. 'fraid not
  2. 'fraid so
  3. 'fridge
  4. 'fridges
  5. 'frigerator
  6. 'fro
  7. 'frohawk
  8. 'fros
  9. 'gainst
  10. 'ganst
  11. 'Gater

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'fro (page history and authors); afro (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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