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Downside of some self-cleaning
Answer for the clue "Downside of some self-cleaning ", 8 letters:
hairball
Alternative clues for the word hairball
Word definitions for hairball in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hairball \hair"ball`\, hair ball \hair" ball`\(h[^a]r"b[e^]l`), n. a compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur; as, the cat coughed up a hairball right on the new rug. [WordNet sense 1 + 2]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1712, from hair + ball (n.1).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming. 2 (context slang figuratively English) A messy, tangled, intractable, stay-away-from-it issue.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) [syn: hair ball , trichobezoar ]
Usage examples of hairball.
Weeds-of-tumbling like enormous hairballs rolled often across the Interstate Highway of I-10 far below.
In this I agree with Robert Fagles in his 1990 translation that while these more latinized versions are farther from the Greek—Hektor versus Akhilleus and the Akhaians and the Argeioi—the more faithful version sometimes sounds like a cat coughing up a hairball.
I am usually a planner and a plodder but this one emerged, if you'll pardon the analogy, like a cat coughs up a hairball.
He thought of maggoty hot-dogs, moldy pizza, pink lemonade with hairballs floating in it.