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Tumble Weave 

Noun. A chunk of weave found laying on the ground, possibly torn out during a fight or perhaps just pulled out and left by a lazy bag. Synthetic (sometimes real) ball of human hair.
"Beware the rolling tumble weaves."
Tumble Weave by SuperDuckyWho June 3, 2013

tumble weave 

The phenomenon when a woman brushes her hair and the hair stays in the brush like matted fiberous ball of straw, falls on the floor and has incubated for an extended period of time and then the AC kicks on and blows that sucker across the room like a giant tumble weed.

aka human-hair-ball.
Girl- don't be brushin your hair in my room, I don't need no damn tumble weaves on my floor blowin around.
tumble weave by Keith & Marilyn November 10, 2007

Baltimore tumble weave 

Hair wigs blowing down the street after a ghetto brawl
Keesha...is that your baltimore tumble weave in the street?

tumbleweave 

When two girls get into a fight and rip out each others' weave, leaving the clumps behind such that they blow around in the wind. Reminiscent of tumbleweed, hence the name. Oftentimes a trail of tumbleweave leads to the scene of the epic battle.
After Shaniqua and Tequesta fought viciously over Tyrone, red and black tumbleweave littered the ground.

Tumbleweave 

Clumps and/or balls of hair rolling down urban neighborhood sidewalks. Most commonly found near afro-american hair-braiding shops and on breezy days.
I was walking down W 127th street and a giant Tumbleweave came rolling past me.
Tumbleweave by chriskirkchardy July 22, 2011

tumbleweave 

n.
A random grouping and usually tangled mass of fake hair, which is generally the result of someones weave being pulled out in a fight, that tumbles down the street similar to a tumbleweed.
Man, you see that tumbleweave rollin' down the street?

Yea, and it looks like we could use it to fix Shaqonda's hair!
tumbleweave by chronosis June 3, 2005
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