[
UK
/kˈaʊlɪk/
]
[ US /ˈkaʊɫɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈkaʊɫɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat
How To Use cowlick In A Sentence
- He adjusted his tie and slicked back his cowlick, ready for the prowl.
- Then I just want to tamp down its cowlick and put it in orthopedic sneakers and set it to dancing. A Conversation with Karen Russell author of St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
- Zeke leaned over, his white-gloved hands splayed on the counter, and his shaggy, ruffled black hair forming a cowlick.
- The barber will just cut it short like I ask and try to work around my cowlicks.
- Babbing caught him by the "cowlick" that adorned his ingenuous young forehead. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- Wisps of white, thinning hair stood up around the electronic appendage in an adorable old guy cowlick.
- I can't brush this dumb cowlick down.
- He looked extremely fatigued; there were bags under his eyes and his hair had several unnatural cowlicks in it.
- His white-blond hair was shaved on the sides, a cowlick at the back of his head. So Much Pretty
- Monica brings to mind those old-time sports heroes that kids with cowlicks once looked up to.
