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cowlick

[kou-lik] / ˈkaʊˌlɪk /




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You might be surprised to learn that you can’t comb the hairs flat on a coconut without creating a cowlick.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023

She was wearing a great outfit and had a huge cowlick and very dry, kind of fuzzy, long hair.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2020

Pratik accosted her afterward, smashing his cowlick back.

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2019

His hair swirled out from his cowlick like a fingerprint, as if it were intended, as if it were someone’s design.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2017

James also signed Steve with three little lines coming up from the second e like a cowlick.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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