Meanings
- pluralplural onlyslangspecificallyPubic hair
When the condom gets caught on your curlies while you're trying to roll it off.
2001 December 1, Demetrios Hung, APA, “First helmet laws, now this...”, in rec.motorcycles (Usenet) - informalpluralplural onlycomputingCurly brackets.
Some keywords, such as {abstract}, show up in curly brackets. It's never really clear what should technically be in guillemets and what should be in curlies.
2004, Martin Fowler, UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language - informalpluralplural onlycomputingCurly quotes.
Doing it manually can be a real drag and messy, but you can use a short macro to change all curlies to straights throughout an entire document.
1994, Woody Leonhard, The Underground Guide to Word for Windows, page 245
Synonyms & antonyms
nounLocks of curly hair.
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Cite this entry
curlies. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curlies
“curlies.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curlies. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curlies,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curlies.
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