Definition of "dental plate" [dental plate]

• See denture. (noun)

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• "When the manager offered him tofutti, Weinberg threatened him with a bottle of Galliano and had to be wrestled down by his Uncle Itchy, who subsequently broke his dental plate and began to cry."