relaxer
Americannoun
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a chemical product applied to curly hair to straighten it, or the treatment that consists of applying this product.
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a person or thing that relaxes, especially a prescription drug that causes tense or spasmed muscles to relax.
noun
Example Sentences
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The company also had to recall more than 135,000 vials of vecuronium bromide, a muscle relaxer used during surgery, after reports that the medication contained glass particles.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025
The put-downs were so merciless that she got her first “kiddie perm,” but the chemical relaxer made her hair fall out.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022
Over this wallpaper, Bey used gallons of relaxer to spell out the words “PICKY HEAD” — Caribbean slang for someone with unkempt hair — in large white capital letters.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2021
But these were like badges of honour, testimony to the fact that the relaxer had taken.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2019
In her bathroom, she carefully smeared the protective gel around her hairline before she began to slather the creamy relaxer on her hair, section by section, her fingers in plastic gloves.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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