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Cree chief Poundmaker with locked hair, 1885. Dreadlocks, also known as dreads or locs, are a hairstyle made of rope-like strands of hair. Dreadlocks are created by either manually twisting the hair or by allowing it to mat naturally. Over time, the hair will form tight braids or ringlets. [1] [2]
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The term's use to describe a caste is first recorded in a Peruvian book published in 1609 and 1616, the Comentarios Reales de los Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. He writes (in Spanish), "The child of a Black male and an Indian female, or of an Indian male and Black female, they call mulato and mulata. The children of these they call cholos.
People in Puerto Rico love creating new slang so much that getting colloquialisms into the Diccionario Real de la Academia Espa–ola, or the Royal Spanish Academy's Dictionary, is practically a ...
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According to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga: . Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences: Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traje (brought, past tense of verb 'to bring'), or haiga, for haya (from haber, to have).
Paul Baker, author of “Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men,” wrote that the language emerged in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatized groups, which made it a popular option for ...
(U.S.) a Black male, derived from apes' long arms dragging behind them on the ground. KOA/KOAF (British Midlands), youth sub-culture 'text-phone slang' for a person from East Anglia or Lincolnshire. Kolean (U.S.) a Korean slang term used for a stupid Korean in Yahoo chat [citation needed] Konk (U.S.) A male of Korean descent.