toothing — English Dictionary

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1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

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2. Teething (growing of teeth).

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3. Tooth-like projections from the perforated edges of a stamp after separation along from its sheet.

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4. Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order to be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.

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5. A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf.

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6. The suppose use of Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs to arrange random sexual encounters (a hoax intended to highlight journalists' gullibility and poor fact-checking if they reported it as real).

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   Bluetooth has lately been associated with the practice of "toothing" or sending messages via Bluetooth in public spaces as attempts to find (sexual) partners.