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make someone's hair curl

make someone's hair curl is the alternative form of curl someone's hair.

Meaning of curl someone's hair

Verb

curl someone's hair (third-person singular simple present curls someone's hair, present participle curling someone's hair, simple past and past participle curled someone's hair)

  1. (idiomatic) To frighten, dismay, or excite someone thoroughly.
    • "I'm not hankering for the dramatic in life, but we had a run last night that would curl your hair."1903, Andy Adams, chapter 7, in The Log of a Cowboy
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see curl, someone's, hair.

Forms of make someone's hair curl

third-person singular presentmakes someone's hair curl
present participlemaking someone's hair curl
past participlemade someone's hair curl
pastmade someone's hair curl

Questions about make someone's hair curl

What is make someone's hair curl the alternative form of?
Make someone's hair curl is the alternative form of curl someone's hair.

Words near make someone's hair curl in the dictionary

  1. make someone's blood boil
  2. make someone's day
  3. make someone's ears sad
  4. make someone's flesh crawl
  5. make someone's flesh creep
  6. make someone's hair curl
  7. make someone's hair stand on end
  8. make someone's head spin
  9. make someone's jaw drop
  10. make someone's skin crawl
  11. make someone's skin creep

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make someone's hair curl (page history and authors); curl someone's hair (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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