Crossword clues for toothpick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toothpick \Tooth"pick`\, n. A pointed instrument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small, usually wooden stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from the area between the teeth.
WordNet
n. pick consisting of a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth
Wikipedia
A toothpick is a small stick of wood, plastic, bamboo, metal, bone or other substance used to remove detritus from the teeth, usually after a meal. A toothpick usually has one or two sharp ends to insert between teeth. They can come in both wood and plastic, and can also be used for picking up small appetizers (like cheese cubes or olives) or as a cocktail stick.
American wooden toothpicks are cut from birch wood or made from plastic. Logs are first spiral cut into thin sheets, which are then cut, chopped, milled and bleached (to lighten) into the individual toothpicks. Maine used to be the leading producer of toothpicks for the United States. The last wood toothpick plant in Maine closed in 2003. Plastic toothpicks, also called dental pics are still made in America in Georgia, by Armond's Manufacturing. The Mayo Clinic recommends using a dental pic in lieu of a wooden toothpick to clean your teeth, as they clean more effectively and you do not risk injuring your gums.
ToothPick.com is an online dental appointment booking service for UK users to find, compare and book local dentists. The site lets users search for their nearest dental practices, compare prices and services and book appointments online. The service is free to use for consumers. Both NHS and private practice dentists are listed on the site.
Toothpick launched a limited, London-based Beta version in November 2012 and will then be rolled out nationwide in early 2013.
The company was founded in late 2011 by a practicing dentist, Sandeep Senghera, and Jozef Wallis, a technology entrepreneur.
ToothPick has been developed in partnership with Henry Schein. The product is integrated with the company’s dental appointment scheduling software, which is in use by thousands of dentists across the UK.
The company is backed by UK angel investors including Passion Capital, Pradeep Menon, Paul Edwards, Satish Jayakumar and Michael Stephanblome.
The company was acquired by WhatClinic, a healthcare comparison site, on November 9, 2015.
Usage examples of "toothpick".
Arkansas has been called the Hot Water State and the Toothpick State, Georgia the Buzzard State, Goober State and Cracker State.
Pete, complaining jocularly about something, and picking his discolored front teeth with a toothpick.
Behind the yellow counter were two people, an elderly matron with gray hair, horn-rimmed glasses, and a jowly jaw, and a tall man with black hair and a toothpick in his mouth.
Nicky Kix, rolling a toothpick around his mouth as he pushed the hard words out.
Dorothy baked fifteen dozen gingerbread men to have at the house for the holidays, Bobby was pulling down all the Christmas decorations from the closets, and Betty Raye and Mother Smith were making gumdrop trees out of toothpicks for the dining room table.
Curtis Weill parked the toothpick in the corner of his mouth and held up two slender headless nails, identical in size and length except one was brighter.
The rest of the appetizers had been pushed off the plates to make room for paella, toothpicks sticking at odd angles.
It was probably only his fevered imagination, distorted in his memory by fear and terror, but the last stavanzer had looked big enough to swallow the entire ship and use the mainmast for a toothpick.
Pour filling over crust and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
He was a bannerless knight, named Julien de Boys-Bourredon, who not having inherited on his estate enough to make a toothpick, and knowing no other wealth than the rich nature with which his dead mother had opportunely furnished him, conceived the idea of deriving therefrom both rent and profit at court, knowing how fond ladies are of those good revenues, and value them high and dear, when they can stand being looked at between two suns.
When it boils, put in the fillets rolled up, and fastened with a toothpick.
Tiny wires and internal pieces of intricate boxwork had been reduced to toothpicks.
The editor of the Sunday Supplement put his toothpick behind his ear and fixed Condy with his eyeglasses.
There were darkies and loafers and hackmen, and also vague individuals, the loosest and blankest he had ever seen anywhere, with tufts on their chins, toothpicks in their mouths, hands in their pockets, rumination in their jaws and diamond pins in their shirt-fronts, who looked as if they had sauntered over from Pennsylvania Avenue to while away half an hour, forsaking for that interval their various slanting postures in the porticoes of the hotels and the doorways of the saloons.
Burnside has arms and shoulders like a dwarfed goliath, and legs so thin his small feet look like powderpuffs attached to toothpicks.