toothing

noun — 6 senses

toothing

noun

Etymology From tooth + -ing.

1

The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

2

Teething (growing of teeth).

3

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

4

Business, Construction, Manufacturing 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.

5

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences A configuration of a leaf margin with teeth, such as of a dentate, serrate, or crenate leaf.

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).

  • Bluetooth has lately been associated with the practice of "toothing" or sending messages via Bluetooth in public spaces as attempts to find (sexual) partners.2011, Ulrike Bucher, Maro Finka, The Electronic City, page 69:
Derived terms
toothing plane

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