a hairstyle sometimes worn by black people and popular in the 1970s, which consists of a round mass of very curly hair Topics Appearancec2非洲式发型(20 世纪 70 年代流行的某些黑人的圆形紧密鬈发) Oxford Collocations DictionaryAfro is used before these nouns:- wig
Word Origin1930s: independent usage of Afro-, or an abbreviation of African.