Bald-head

noun BAAL-hed ˈbaːl hɛd

Also spelled baldhead, bald head, baal-head

In Rastafari speech, a person who does not wear dreadlocks — and, more pointedly, one who is not a Rasta and who upholds the ways of 'Babylon' (the corrupt establishment). From the Wailers' 'Crazy Baldhead', it names the unconverted, close-cropped conformist as opposed to the 'natty' or 'dread'. Outside Rasta usage, it also plainly means a bald-headed person.

  • Rasta chant dung di crazy baldhead.

    Rasta denounces the crazy baldheads (Babylonians).

  • Him cut off him locks an turn baldhead.

    He cut off his locks and became a baldhead (non-Rasta).

  • Di baldhead man shine him head.

    The bald man shined his head.

From 'bald' + 'head'; in Rastafari, one without locks / a non-Rasta 'Babylonian'. See [[dread]], [[babylon]].

Rasta term for a non-locksed, non-Rasta person; also literally bald. See [[dread]], [[babylon]], [[locks]].