"Jheri curl" meaning in English

See Jheri curl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈdʒɛɹi kɜɹl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Jheri curl.wav Forms: Jheri curls [plural]
Etymology: Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998), its inventor. Etymology templates: {{named-after/list|hairdresser||||}} hairdresser, {{!}} |, {{lang|en|Jheri Redding}} Jheri Redding, {{named-after|en|Jheri Redding|born=1907|died=1998|nat=American|occ=hairdresser|wplink==}} Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998) Head templates: {{en-noun}} Jheri curl (plural Jheri curls)
  1. A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look. Categories (topical): Hair Synonyms: Jerry curl, jerry curl, Jeri curl
    Sense id: en-Jheri_curl-en-noun-s4yNeRe5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hairdresser",
        "2": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": ""
      },
      "expansion": "hairdresser",
      "name": "named-after/list"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "|",
      "name": "!"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Jheri Redding"
      },
      "expansion": "Jheri Redding",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Jheri Redding",
        "born": "1907",
        "died": "1998",
        "nat": "American",
        "occ": "hairdresser",
        "wplink": "="
      },
      "expansion": "Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998)",
      "name": "named-after"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998), its inventor.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Jheri curls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Jheri curl (plural Jheri curls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "en:Hair",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "All topics",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "Health"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, spoken by Mister Senor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson):",
          "text": "Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 517:",
          "text": "Eye shadow but no lipstick, Jheri curl drying out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Romeo Conway, Stop Faking for Stripes, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "His little Jheri curl shined under the car's light. He looked hood.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look."
      ],
      "id": "en-Jheri_curl-en-noun-s4yNeRe5",
      "links": [
        [
          "hairstyle",
          "hairstyle"
        ],
        [
          "African-American",
          "African-American"
        ],
        [
          "glossy",
          "glossy"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Jerry curl"
        },
        {
          "word": "jerry curl"
        },
        {
          "word": "Jeri curl"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Jheri curl.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʒɛɹi kɜɹl/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Jheri curl"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hairdresser",
        "2": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": ""
      },
      "expansion": "hairdresser",
      "name": "named-after/list"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "|",
      "name": "!"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Jheri Redding"
      },
      "expansion": "Jheri Redding",
      "name": "lang"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Jheri Redding",
        "born": "1907",
        "died": "1998",
        "nat": "American",
        "occ": "hairdresser",
        "wplink": "="
      },
      "expansion": "Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998)",
      "name": "named-after"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998), its inventor.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Jheri curls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Jheri curl (plural Jheri curls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Hair"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, spoken by Mister Senor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson):",
          "text": "Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 517:",
          "text": "Eye shadow but no lipstick, Jheri curl drying out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Romeo Conway, Stop Faking for Stripes, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "His little Jheri curl shined under the car's light. He looked hood.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hairstyle",
          "hairstyle"
        ],
        [
          "African-American",
          "African-American"
        ],
        [
          "glossy",
          "glossy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Jheri curl.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Jheri_curl.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdʒɛɹi kɜɹl/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Jerry curl"
    },
    {
      "word": "jerry curl"
    },
    {
      "word": "Jeri curl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Jheri curl"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Jheri curl meaning in English (2.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.