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n. a high speed drill that dentists use to cut into teeth [syn: burr drill]
Usage examples of "dentist's drill".
The awareness that he hasn't seen Glory since that night is like a slow hot dentist's drill.
That susurrous splash, though soft and soothing under other circumstances, now abraded her nerves as effectively as the whine of a dentist's drill.
At the tap of a key, the head floated to the left of the screen, and on the right appeared the skull as it stared up at the video camera like a patient waiting for the dentist's drill.
He looked like they had just taken off his skin and touched each raw nerve with a dentist's drill.
Sometimes Jason Dill could hear that sound going on like a far-off, incredibly high-pitched dentist's drill.
Behind the closet doors, Jay found a rolling instrument cart, carefully hung with knives, pliers, thumbscrews, and other toys, even an antique dentist's drill, its bit still crusted with dried blood.
It made a horrible whining noise reminiscent of an old-style dentist's drill, the kind still used in horror videos.