dental floss

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Noun

dental floss (usually uncountable, plural dental flosses)

  2. A cord of thin filaments used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
    Hypernyms: floss (elliptically synonymous when the context is clear), cord
  3. (colloquial, humorous, sometimes in similes) Extremely skimpy clothing.
    • 2011, D. V. Bernard, How to Kill Your Boyfriend (in 10 Easy Steps) (page 64)
      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.
    • 2013, Dr. Akeam A. Simmons, Grace and a Thug
      […] and watch them young girls walk by wearing dental floss for a bathing suit.

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