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{{Short description|Rope-like braiding hairstyle}} {{distinguish|Lock of hair|Lovelock (hair)}} [[File:Poundmaker.png|thumb|right|[[Plains Cree people|Cree]] chief [[Poundmaker]] with locked hair, 1885]] '''Dreadlocks''', also known as '''dreads''' or '''locs''', are a [[Hairstyle|hairstyle]] made of rope-like strands of matted hair. Dreadlocks can form naturally in [[Hair#Texture|very curly hair]], or they can be created with techniques like twisting, [[Backcombing|backcombing]], or crochet.<ref>{{cite book | last = Robbins | first = C. R. | title = Chemical and Physical Behavior of Human Hair | year = 2012 | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin, Heidelberg | doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-25611-0 | isbn = 978-3-642-25610-3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1 = Evans | first1 = T. | last2 = Wickett | first2 = R. R. | editor1-last = Evans | editor1-first = T. | editor2-last = Wickett | editor2-first = R. R. | title = Practical Modern Hair Science | year = 2012 | publisher = Allured Business Media | isbn = 978-1-932633-93-1 | pages = 538 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jerrentrup |first=Maja Tabea |date=2020 |title=A Non-Linear Style: Contradictions Surrounding Dreadlocks |url=https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0257-9774-2020-1/anthropos-volume-115-2020-issue-1?page=1 |journal=Anthropos |volume=115 |issue=1 |pages=171β180 |doi=10.5771/0257-9774-2020-1-171 |issn=0257-9774|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Valentine |first=Syris |date=2024-04-16 |title=Locs Represent Resistance for Black People in the U.S. That's Why They Are under Fire |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/locs-represent-resistance-for-black-people-in-the-u-s-thats-why-they-are/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416112851/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/locs-represent-resistance-for-black-people-in-the-u-s-thats-why-they-are/ |archive-date=2024-04-16 |work=[[Scientific American]] |quote=Since locs can form by simply ceasing to comb kinky hair, young Rastas could easily defy social norms by allowing their hair to become matted.}}</ref>
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