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cowlicks

cowlicks is the plural of cowlick.

Meaning of cowlick

Noun

cowlick (plural cowlicks)

  1. An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
    • We would touch strangers discreetly, feathering down their cowlicks.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    calflick

Questions about cowlicks

What is cowlicks the plural of?
Cowlicks is the plural of cowlick.

Words near cowlicks in the dictionary

  1. Cowley Fathers
  2. Cowleyan
  3. Cowleys
  4. cowlick
  5. cowlicked
  6. cowlicks
  7. cowlift
  8. cowlifts
  9. cowlike
  10. Cowlin
  11. cowling

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