Definitions
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- noun One who gnashes teeth.
- noun A tooth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Maybe the bawling teeth gnasher is a straw man (look! no links!), but you needn’t look very hard to see the straw man incarnate.
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The temporary ivory art - known as "gnasher tats" - will last roughly three months, depending on how much Barmy Baz Franks brushes.
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Andrew, who seems like a real teeth gnasher, is talking about his love of cooking and gives us our first gross quote of the show: "There's nothing better than people tasting my passion."
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"Informers are famous for their irony - but I don't want my gnasher wrenched out next door to a hovel called after the goddess of inescapable retribution!"
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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The rumble and roar of the thunder were said to be the roll of his chariot, for he alone among the gods never rode on horseback, but walked, or drove in a brazen chariot drawn by two goats, Tanngniostr (tooth-cracker), and Tanngrisnr (tooth-gnasher), from whose teeth and hoofs the sparks constantly flew.
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Persuade your nocturnal teeth-clencher or gnasher to get a mouth guard, and remind him to wear it every night both he and his dentist will thank you.
CNN.com 2012
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More news of exotic high technology benefiting the human race today, as German gnasher-boffins announce a cunning plan to replace dentists 'drills with "painless, contact-free" plasma beam devices.
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If you thought the flesh-ripping dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were terrifying, those fearsome creatures were just puppydogs compared to the giant teeth-gnasher that once roamed the plains of time that Australia was once home to a dinosaur that was big, fast and terrifying, and they've named it like something from an Arnold Schwarzenegger
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If you thought the flesh-ripping dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were terrifying, those fearsome creatures were just puppydogs compared to the giant teeth-gnasher that once roamed the plains of
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- but any dreams he had of nabbing the gnasher in style were promptly voted down.
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