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plural cowlicks
An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex. quotations examples
We would touch strangers discreetly, feathering down their cowlicks.
2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux