curl definition

1. American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
2. form a curl, curve, or kink
• examples: the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
3. shape one's body into a curl
• examples: She curled farther down under the covers
• examples: She fell and drew in
4. twist or roll into coils or ringlets
• examples: curl my hair, please
5. play the Scottish game of curling