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▸ noun: Raw silk fibres.
▸ noun: The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
▸ noun: Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
▸ noun: (British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
▸ noun: A body feather of an ostrich.
▸ noun: A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To clean the area between (the teeth) using floss.
▸ verb: (slang, African-American Vernacular) To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To perform the floss dance move.
▸ noun: (UK) A small stream of water.
▸ noun: Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
▸ noun: (Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).
▸ noun: (computing) Abbreviation of free/libre/open source software.
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dental floss,
flosh,
floss-silk,
flexid,
butt floss,
fangtooth,
filiment,
flox silk,
flipper,
metafossette,
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