Definition of "tongue-tie" []

• Restricted mobility of the tongue resulting from abnormal shortness of the frenum. (noun)
• To make tongue-tied. (verb-transitive)

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• "Some of them couldn't get enough milk going; some had nipples that were too big, or a baby with a too-small mouth, or a baby with a tongue-tie, or a baby that just didn't feed, got jaundice from not feeding, had to go back into hospital and, by the time it came out, was bottle-accomplished but no longer knew how to do it the old-fashioned way."
• "Sir Michael Stoute is trying him in a tongue-tie today and the colt would have a major chance if back to the best of his juvenile form."
• "Have you had your baby evaluated for a tongue-tie?"