do-rag

do-rag

A scarf, bandana, or similar item tied around the head as a covering. Bob says he uses that do-rag to keep his hair out of his face while he mows the lawn.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

doorag

n. a headcap that covers and protects a hairdo. He caught his doorag on a branch.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • doorag
  • soldier rag
  • mow one’s lawn
  • mow the lawn
  • scarf
  • scarf down
  • scarf something down
  • in question
  • slip over
  • slip something over
References in periodicals archive
This type of rule allows males of color to wear do-rags or baseball caps, which many students at Lincoln High School preferred to do to cover up their hair, while still enabling school personnel to easily identify them.
How dress codes criminalize males and sexualize females of color: Too often, school dress codes are enforced in ways that disproportionately impact students of color--both male and female
There was a National Achievement Scholar that I recruited to the university, and he wore a do-rag and big pants.
Man on a mission: amid turnaround effort, new FAMU President James H. Ammons keeps focus on Black males
Caught amid a world of darkness in which nothing is on television but reality TV rerun, animals are talking back, and simple coffee is beyond mortal reach, stressed-out forty something woman Nikki Nasco and driven aerobics instructor and lesbian Amber Lawson must join forces with a singing Coyote in a do-rag to bring back the light.
All Encompassing Trip
A young man with a do-rag tightly wrapped around the top of his head enters the room.
"They're peddling death": profiting from unsafe sex--an Advocate investigation
yeah, right), or something cool like the official United States Air Force do-rag I found on my desk one day when I returned from lunch.
Seek and ye shall find
Sierra, an up-and-coming Maya Angelou, recently published her collection of poems Under the Do-Rag. Sierra poetically tackles the harsh realities of the Holocaust and Civil Rights movement "I've always been interested in the Civil Rights movement, and I was inspired to write about the Holocaust after visiting the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C." So, what exactly is a do-rag?
Rhyme and Reason
The groom, for example, chose to add hip-hop headgear to his brown-tuxedo-and-white-derby ensemble, believing his white do-rag and designer sunglasses were as much a statement of his orientation as it was an attention getter.
Hip-Hop Wedding Of The Decade
I know of black boys and girls who squirm uncomfortably in their desks at the two-dimensional, unrelenting portrayal of young people as either victims of slavery or perennial do-rag wearers hanging out on a stoop next to a garbage can.
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He lives his message: the mansion in an upscale Chicago neighborhood, a concert violinist, the short-cropped haircut (no do-rag for him).
'Hood winks
The 19-year-old Kylie Cosmetics mogul was spotted wearing a do-rag (also known as du rag, durag and doo rag), a head wrap traditionally worn in the black community, on Saturday, Sept.
Twitter Blasts Kylie Jenner For Cultural Appropriation After Wearing A Do-Rag [PHOTOS]
A man sporting a black do-rag called his attention, hey we selling TMT shirts here, you wanna buy?
At the Mayweather camp: Not in our house
Bubba dropped out, unleashed pimp-limp, do-rag nigranometry on 145th street.
Norma & Bubba
There are jazz babies and city drunks, a Black Power brother wearing a beret, and a dude in a do-rag. In short, not only is Walker stretching the fragile membrane that separates her graphic universe from realms of flesh and blood, she is also forging ahead in history.
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He was wearing long blue jean shorts that end below his knees, a black shirt with white elbow-length sleeves, black sneakers and an LA Dodgers baseball cap that was black with white letters and covered a black and white bandana type do-rag. He has several tattoos on his hands, neck and arms and may have a teardrop tattoo under his left eye.
FROM THE REGION
Officers arrived and learned that a 6-foot-2-inch-tall black man between 18 and 25 years old with a medium build, wearing a "do-rag" on his head, blue jeans and a dark jacket pulled a handgun from the front of his waistband and fired at the victim.
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