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points one's toes

points one's toes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of point one's toes.

Meaning of point one's toes

Verb

point one's toes (third-person singular simple present points one's toes, present participle pointing one's toes, simple past and past participle pointed one's toes)

  1. To flex the ankle as far as possible while simultaneously extending the toes in the same direction.
    • Point your toes away from you (downward) as far as you can.2000, Delores Christina Schoen, Adult Orthopaedic Nursing, →ISBN, page 35
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see point, toe.
    • “You're trying to hypnotize me. I'm not going to let you do that.” “You're going to hypnotize yourself. You do everything yourself. I just point the way. I point your toes to the path. Just point your toes. No one can make you go anywhere you don't want to go, but you want to go where your toes are...1999, Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, Baby is Three, →ISBN, page 384

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Points one's toes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of point one's toes.

Words near points one's toes in the dictionary

  1. points of sight
  2. points of tangency
  3. points of use
  4. points of view
  5. points of vision
  6. points one's toes
  7. points out
  8. points Percy at the porcelain
  9. points race
  10. points races
  11. points the bone

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