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tooth-to-jowl

tooth-to-jowl adverb: very close together.

Adverb

tooth-to-jowl

  1. Very close together
    • Most Latinos don’t live tooth-to-jowl because they love each other so much. In fact, new census data (again, statistics) show that Latinos in the Pajaro Valley have some of the highest crowding problems in the state.2002 April 7, Heather Boerner, “Gimme Shelter Rethinking California’s housing needs”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel
    • Having no safe, private sanitation facilities in areas where people are living tooth-to-jowl means going the whole day without relieving oneself and then risking exposure at night.2004, Millennium Project, Interim Report of Task Force 7 on Water and Sanitation, 02-01

Questions about tooth-to-jowl

What does tooth-to-jowl mean?
Tooth-to-jowl means very close together.
What part of speech is tooth-to-jowl?
Tooth-to-jowl is an adverb.

Words near tooth-to-jowl in the dictionary

  1. tooth-combs
  2. tooth-drawer
  3. tooth-drawers
  4. tooth-stainer
  5. tooth-stainers
  6. tooth-to-jowl
  7. tooth-wash
  8. tooth-washes
  9. toothach
  10. toothache
  11. toothache bark

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