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dental flosses

dental flosses is the plural of dental floss.

Meaning of dental floss

Noun

dental floss (usually uncountable, plural dental flosses)

  1. (usually) A cord of thin filaments used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
  2. (colloquial, humorous, sometimes, usually) Extremely skimpy clothing.
    • She was wearing a bikini top, but she may as well have been wearing dental floss, as the bikini top barely even covered her nipples and areolas.2011, D. V. Bernard, How to Kill Your Boyfriend (in 10 Easy Steps) (page 64)

Questions about dental flosses

What is dental flosses the plural of?
Dental flosses is the plural of dental floss.

Words near dental flosses in the dictionary

  1. dental drill
  2. dental drills
  3. dental engine
  4. dental engines
  5. dental floss
  6. dental flosses
  7. dental formula
  8. dental formulae
  9. dental formulas
  10. dental fricative
  11. dental fricatives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dental flosses (page history and authors); dental floss (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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