jheri curl
/ˈdʒɛɹi kɜɹl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Jheri curl.
Example Sentences
- "Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!"
- "Eye shadow but no lipstick, Jheri curl drying out."
- "His little Jheri curl shined under the car's light. He looked hood."
- "We improved the process and enabled salon owners to do more than one jheri curl a day."
- "In the South jheri curls were just appearing on the hair horizon. One Friday when I jumped into my barber’s chair to get a trim, she suggested I try a jheri curl. I was game, despite the fact that most of the women I knew hated jheri curls on men and called men who wore them “bamas,” a term short for Alabamas, which meant real country."
- "Richard’s jheri curls were a black corona around his face."