Definition of "floss" []

• Dental floss. (noun)
• Short or waste silk fibers, especially from the outer surface of the cocoon of a silkworm. (noun)
• Soft, loosely twisted thread, as of silk or cotton, used in embroidery. (noun)
• A downy or silky fibrous substance, such as corn silk or silk cotton. (noun)
• To clean between (teeth) with dental floss. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "At least fairy floss is still affordable, though I'll be keeping a low profile this afternoon while hundreds of local children hit one almighty sugar crash!"
• "The more that I think about it, the more this case resembles McNeil-PPC v. Pfizer, the dental floss case from SDNY, where the key question was what it meant to “floss” — did it mean to floss correctly, or to floss the way most people actually floss, which is to say badly."
• "I was also in a good mood because I found a shop selling embroidery supplies and there is apparently no equivalent in Heidelberg except the Kaufhof selling a few colors of floss, which is a much bigger town."