Usually means: Hair tuft growing in swirl.
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  1. cowlick: Merriam-Webster
  2. cowlick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cowlick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cowlick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cowlick: Vocabulary.com
  6. cowlick: Wordnik
  7. cowlick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cowlick: Wiktionary
  9. cowlick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cowlick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cowlick: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cowlick, cowlick: Dictionary.com
  13. Cowlick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cowlick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cowlick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cowlick: Rhymezone
  17. Cowlick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cowlick: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cowlick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cowlick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cowlick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cowlick: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cowlick)

noun:  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.

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