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Afro

[af-roh] / ˈæf roʊ /
NOUN
frizzy hairstyle
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After teaching a quick lesson on Charles Mingus, she produced a bright yellow record jacket with a photograph of a bearded man with an Afro, wearing a tight yellow T-shirt and beaming confidently.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

It was because Roy Ayers — the bearded man with an Afro on the album cover — was my biological father.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

"Where we're at now there's so much, there's Afro gospel, there's R&B, there's rap and it's touching on so many different matters."

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

It spawned some of the band's best-loved songs, including Kinky Afro, Loose Fit and Step On, their era-defining version of John Kongos's 1971 hit He's Gonna Step on You Again.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

Her hair looked even crazier than it had this morning—more frizzy than curly, like she was working on a big red Afro.

From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell



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