# dreadlock

Pronunciation: say "DRED-lok" US /ˈdɹɛdˌlɑk/, UK /ˈdɹɛdlɒk/

## Noun

1. One of the separate strands that together make up a head of dreadlocks.
   - Simple: One single piece of hair in a head of dreadlocks.
   - _The stylist worked wax into each dreadlock, one at a time._
   - _Years later, he still kept the dreadlock he had cut off in a small wooden box._

## Verb

2. To form a person's hair into dreadlocks.
   - Simple: To make hair into dreadlocks.
   - _Some salons will dreadlock your hair in a single afternoon._
   - _His hair had been dreadlocked by years of salt water and sun._

## Origin

Formed from dreadlocks.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/dreadlock (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).