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▸ noun: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
▸ noun: a strand or cluster of hair
▸ noun: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
▸ verb: form a curl, curve, or kink ("The cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling")
▸ verb: play the Scottish game of curling
▸ verb: twist or roll into coils or ringlets ("Curl my hair, please")
▸ verb: shape one's body into a curl ("She curled farther down under the covers")
▸ verb: wind around something in coils or loops
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #6975)
▸ Also see curls
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▸ noun: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
▸ noun: a strand or cluster of hair
▸ noun: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
▸ verb: form a curl, curve, or kink ("The cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling")
▸ verb: play the Scottish game of curling
▸ verb: twist or roll into coils or ringlets ("Curl my hair, please")
▸ verb: shape one's body into a curl ("She curled farther down under the covers")
▸ verb: wind around something in coils or loops
▸ name: A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #6975)
▸ Also see curls
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to curl
▸ Usage examples for curl
▸ Idioms related to curl (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing curl
▸ Words that often appear near curl
▸ Rhymes of curl
▸ Invented words related to curl