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edges

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɛd͡ʒɪz//

The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.

noun

  1. 1

    The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.

    i never could keep my edges and kitchen / straight / even after / supercool/straighterPerm had burned / whiteness onto my scalp

    Her edges were thick and dry and the ends of her hair just as thirsty.

  2. 2

    Also a form of edgeplural of edge

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of edgethird-person singular simple present indicative of edge

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).