- a piece of hair that grows at the front of the head and hangs down over the forehead
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- a part of a horse’s mane that grows forwards between its earsTopics Animalsc2
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See forelock in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarytouch/tug your forelock (to somebody)
- (British English, disapproving) to show too much respect for somebody of a higher class, especially because you are anxious about what they think of you
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