Usually means: Thread for cleaning between teeth.
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  1. floss: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. floss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. floss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. floss: Vocabulary.com
  6. Floss, floss: Wordnik
  7. floss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FLOSS, floss: Wiktionary
  9. floss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. floss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. floss: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. floss: Dictionary.com
  13. floss (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. floss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FLOSS, Floss (dance), Floss (mixtape), Floss (song), Floss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Floss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. floss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. floss: Rhymezone
  19. Floss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. floss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. floss: Free Dictionary
  22. floss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. floss: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. floss: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Floss: Glossary of Health Care Terms

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  1. floss: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. floss: Medical dictionary

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  1. FLOSS: Acronym Finder
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Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Floss (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. floss, floss, floss: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
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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