Definitions
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- adjective Having
buckteeth
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having protruding upper front teeth
Etymologies
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Examples
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I went and checked our copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to be sure, and Hermione Granger is first described as bushy-haired and buck-toothed.
mrissa: They'll put it on my tombstone: "The book was better." mrissa 2010
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By the time of the American Revolution, the buck-toothed beaver had been hunted to near-extinction in its eastern habitat.
The Beaver Wars Stephen Brumwell 2012
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The buck-toothed fish is now selling as well as the more readily known red snapper.
The New School 2010
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant ran a cartoon portraying a buck-toothed Chinese waiter yelling at a customer depicted as Uncle Sam, "Apologize Lotten Amellican!"
Bill Ong Hing: "Ching Chong, Chinaman": The De-Americanization of Asian Americans Bill Ong Hing 2012
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant ran a cartoon portraying a buck-toothed Chinese waiter yelling at a customer depicted as Uncle Sam, "Apologize Lotten Amellican!"
Bill Ong Hing: "Ching Chong, Chinaman": The De-Americanization of Asian Americans Bill Ong Hing 2012
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I'd like to sit on the beach and listen to it with buck-toothed Heather.
60 Seconds Murray Dunlap 2011
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Man, Ken Jeong is totally going to voice some Honda Civic that becomes a squinty-eyed, buck-toothed, Fu-Manchu-moustache-donning robot, isn't he?
John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Ken Jeong Cast in Transformers 3 | /Film 2010
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Chauliodus is derived from the Greek word for "buck-toothed" and refers to the species' big slanted front teeth.
Daemonosaurus Chauliodus: 'Evil, Buck-Toothed' Dinosaur Discovery Fills Gap In Evolution (PHOTOS) 2011
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“Spending long summer days indoors/writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl from Luxembourg”?
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant ran a cartoon portraying a buck-toothed Chinese waiter yelling at a customer depicted as Uncle Sam, "Apologize Lotten Amellican!"
Bill Ong Hing: "Ching Chong, Chinaman": The De-Americanization of Asian Americans Bill Ong Hing 2012
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