loc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "loc"

Translingual

Symbol

loc

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Inonhan.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Inonhan terms

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of dreadlock.

Alternative forms

• 'loc

Noun

loc (plural locs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.
   • 2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette‎:

     Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.

   • 2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

     Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.

Derived terms

• loc'd

Verb

loc (third-person singular simple present locs, present participle locing, simple past and past participle loced)

1. (informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.
   • 1996, Hype Hair, page 42:

     Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.

Etymology 2

Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LOC.

Etymology 3

Noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)

1. (software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōk, IPA^(key): /ləʊk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊk/
• Rhymes: -əʊk

Adjective

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

1. (US, slang) Clipping of loco (“crazy”).

   Wassup, can a loc come up in your crib?

Derived terms

• loced out

Further reading

• “loc adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Anagrams

• -col-, CLO, COL, Clo, Col., OCL, OLC, col, col-, col.