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hank

[hangk] / hæŋk /


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And then Ozzy grabbed a hank of his shoulder-length brown-and-pink hair and shouted:

From Washington Post Apr. 28, 2023

"We will continue our plans to celebrate the memory of hank Aaron during this season’s All-Star festivities," Manfredi said.

From Fox News Apr. 5, 2021

Sunshine twisted a hank of long blonde hair around her hand.

From Salon Mar. 2, 2019

Put hank in the big Apple where he belongs.

From New York Times Apr. 17, 2016

I am not a skin color or a hank of wavy hair.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

Krymov is 67, with hanks of pale hair sweeping across a broad forehead.

From Washington Post Apr. 1, 2022

"This is just who I am!" she says, those wide eyes getting even wider, hanks of blond hair bobbing atop her head like leaves on a palm tree.

From The Guardian Aug. 21, 2011

The paint seems to metamorphose into different things, including hanks of hair, statue-topped pedestals and piles of excrement.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2011

Inspired by asymmetrical Indian coiffures, seventeenth-century London blades wore long, loose hanks of hair known as “lovelocks.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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