edges
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - IPA(key): /ˈɛd͡ʒɪz/
Noun
edges
- plural of edge
- (plural only, African-American Vernacular) The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.
- 1969, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Songs of a Black Bird, For Sistuhs Wearin Straight Hair:
- i never could keep my edges and kitchen / straight / even after / supercool/straighterPerm had burned / whiteness onto my scalp
- 2015, Meesha Mink, All Hail the Queen: An Urban Tale:
- Her edges were thick and dry and the ends of her hair just as thirsty.
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Verb
edges
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of edge
Anagrams
- sedge