curl : Idioms & Phrases

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Blue curls

  • noun any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers
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  • (Bot.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal.
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curl up

  • verb shape one's body into a curl
    curl; draw in.
    • She curled farther down under the covers
    • She fell and drew in
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curled leaf pondweed

  • noun European herb naturalized in the eastern United States and California
    curly pondweed; Potamogeton crispus.
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curling iron

  • noun a cylindrical metal home appliance that heats a lock of hair that has been curled around it
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kiss curl

  • noun a spiral curl plastered on the forehead or cheek
    kiss curl.
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leg curl

  • noun an exercise designed to strengthen the flexor muscles of the leg
    leg curl.
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leg curling

  • noun an exercise designed to strengthen the flexor muscles of the leg
    leg curl.
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pin curl

  • noun a curl of hair made by dampening a strand of hair and curling it and holding the curl with a clip or bobby pin
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robert curl

  • noun American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
    Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Curl.
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robert f. curl

  • noun American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
    Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Curl.
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robert floyd curl jr.

  • noun American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
    Curl; Robert F. Curl; Robert Curl.
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sausage curl

  • noun a fat sausage-shaped curl
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spit curl

  • noun a spiral curl plastered on the forehead or cheek
    kiss curl.
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Spit" curl`
Definitions
  1. A little lock of hair, plastered in a spiral form on the temple or forehead with spittle, or other adhesive substance. Colloq.
Webster 1913

wooly blue curls

  • noun an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico
    California romero; Trichostema lanatum; black sage.
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