Definition of "hangnails" [hangnails]

• Plural form of hangnail. (noun)

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• "But what I’m not proud of, what I can’t live with, and what bothers me more than unbitable hangnails, is the gross underrepresentation of certain letters."
• "Men are better at long-term discomfort and degradation, things like prison and jobs, than we are at extreme, shorter-term bouts of excruciating pain, things like swimming the 'fly for 28 miles, squeezing kids' heads through birth canals, and hangnails."
• "His nails, torn and broken and afflicted with hangnails, were never cleaned."