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Dreadlock vs Rasta - What's the difference?

dreadlock | rasta |

As a noun dreadlock

is a single strand of dreadlocks.

As a verb dreadlock

is to put (hair) into dreadlocks.

As a proper noun rasta is

rastafari.

dreadlock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A single strand of dreadlocks
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put (hair) into dreadlocks
  • *{{quote-book, 2004, David Benioff, When the Nines Roll Over and Other Stories citation
  • , passage=I paced the avenues, mane dreadlocked by city dirt.}}

    Synonyms

    *dread

    rasta

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • belonging to an originally Jamaican sect regarding Blacks as chosen people, and the Jamaican national colors and the leaf of the marijuana plant as symbols
  • Anagrams

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