Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, the upper lip or muzzle of a quadruped, when tumid and continued uninterruptedly from the nostril, as in the camel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.
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Examples
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Simply peel back his chiloma and you will see teeth that are the size of dominoes and the color of volcanic ash.”
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Usage: “That camel had his chiloma all up in my biz, tryn to lick crumbs off my pants” or “Have you ever seen the poor dental hygiene of our humpy friends?
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