Usually means: Hair with natural waves, spirals.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Curly:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. curly: Merriam-Webster
  2. curly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curly, curly: Wordnik
  7. curly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curly: Wiktionary
  9. curly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curly, curly: Dictionary.com
  13. curly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Curly (scout), Curly (song), Curly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Curly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. curly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. curly: Rhymezone
  18. Curly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. curly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. curly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. curly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. curly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. curly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  2. curly: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curly, curly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Curly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See curlier as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Curly)

▸ adjective:  Having curls.
▸ adjective:  (typography) Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes)
▸ adjective:  (Australia) Complicated and difficult; knotty.
▸ noun:  a person or animal with curly hair.
▸ noun:  A nickname for a person with curly hair
▸ noun:  (humorous) A nickname for a bald person
▸ noun:  A male given name.

Similar:
frizzy, kinky, frizzly, ringleted, permed, curling, wavy, nappy, crisp, curlered, more...

Opposite:
straight, smooth, sleek

Types:
curly fries, curly hair, curly kale, curly parsley, curly dock, curly endive, curly willow, curly leaf lettuce, more...

Phrases:
curly hair, curly braces, curly brackets, curly head, curly top, more...

Adjectives:
young, old, poor, little, slim, next, observed, gallant, long, bad

Colors:
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Similar:
frizzy, kinky, frizzly, ringleted, permed, curling, wavy, nappy, crisp, curlered, more...

Opposite:
straight, smooth, sleek

Types:
curly fries, curly hair, curly kale, curly parsley, curly dock, curly endive, curly willow, curly leaf lettuce, more...

Phrases:
curly hair, curly braces, curly brackets, curly head, curly top, curly brace, curly haired, curly bracket, curly endive, curly heads, curly fries, curly kale, curly grass, curly birch, Curly Howard, curly coated, more...

Adjectives:
young, old, poor, little, slim, next, observed, gallant, long, bad

Colors:
    chestnut,     mahogany,     copper,     caramel,     honey, more...



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