Dictionary

loc en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Clipping of dreadlock.

Meanings

1. (informal, plural-normally) A dreadlock.
   • Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa. 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
   • Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in. 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:

Forms

Deriveds

loc'd

loc en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Clipping of dreadlock.

Meanings

1. (informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.
   • Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair. 1996, Hype Hair, page 42:

Forms

loc en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (alt-of, countable, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of LOC.
   alt of LOC

Forms

loc en · NOUN · etymology 3

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable) Clipping of localization.
   alt of localization

Forms

loc en · ADJ · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• /loʊk/ (General-American)
• lōk (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ləʊk/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

1. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang) Clipping of loco (“crazy”).
   alt of loco
   • Wassup, can a loc come up in your crib?

Forms

Deriveds

loced out