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• n  garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement
• s  (of hair) in small tight curls

• Pedaling through the streets on his seatless black bike, in high-price tennis shoes and big, baggy clothes, Sandifer -- coiffed in what neighbors described as his "nappy" hairstyle .
• When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the .
• With his mea-culpa and suspension for calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed ho's," the loudmouth talk show host joins a stellar group of celebrities .

• diaper
• napkin
• crisp
• frizzly
• frizzy
• kinky

News & Articles

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• Nappy Roots reschedules Strange Brew show
  Ninties alternative southern rappers Nappy Roots has cancelled their May 24 show at Strange Brew, 235 Wall St., Shreveport.
  June 8, 2013 - The Journal News
• This Startup Is Going To Save Me From Torture (And Also Tap A $9 Billion Black Hair Care Market)
  As an African-American girl growing up, I soon came to realize that dealing with my hair would never be easy. When I was much younger, my mom could hardly comb through my hair because it was so nappy. Braiding it seemed to be the only solution.
  June 7, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• Don Imus in ESPN
  Man, they got tattoos ...... That's some nappy headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that,Imus said.
• T Pain in DJBooth.net
  Nappy Boy Digital is a dream come true for me. I'm excited about bringing music by new artists to people fresh out of the studio,said T-Pain commenting on the venture. "My life and career so far has been about breaking barriers and this...
• DL Hughley in DiversityInc.com (subscription)
  He called them nappy-headed hos and they weren't hos,Hughley told Leno. "But there were some nappy-headed women on that team. Shut up, I'm gonna say it. I don't give a damn if you all like it or not. You know it's true. They were some of...