"natty dread" meaning in Jamaican Creole

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  "etymology_text": "Compound of natty (“knotty”) + dread (“dreadlocks”).",
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      "form": "natty dread dem",
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  "hyphenation": [
    "na‧tty‧dread"
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  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "natty dreadlocks"
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        "Abbreviation of natty dreadlocks."
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        {
          "english": "Cut whose hair? Don't make those kinds of jokes around the Rasta man.",
          "text": "Cut who fa hair? Doah run dem joke wid natty dread.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Annette Lynch, Mitchell D. Strauss, Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia (in English), page 248",
          "text": "In Jamaica, Rastas are sometimes referred to as Natty Dread due to their thick dreadlocked hair. […]",
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        "A Rastafarian man."
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          "word": "dread"
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          "word": "natty"
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          "word": "ras"
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          "_dis1": "26 74",
          "word": "rasta"
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          "word": "Rastafari"
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          "word": "dread"
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          "word": "natty"
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          "word": "ras"
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          "word": "rasta"
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          "word": "natty-dread"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnatɪ ˈd͡ʒɹɛd/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "natty dread"
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      "word": "dread"
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          "english": "Cut whose hair? Don't make those kinds of jokes around the Rasta man.",
          "text": "Cut who fa hair? Doah run dem joke wid natty dread.",
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        },
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      "word": "dread"
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      "word": "natty dreadlocks"
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  "word": "natty dread"
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