snaggletooth
Americannoun
plural
snaggleteethnoun
Other Word Forms
- snaggle-toothed adjective
- snaggletoothed adjective
Etymology
Origin of snaggletooth
Example Sentences
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We’re talking about Derpy Tiger, an oversized blue cat with glowing yellow eyes, a snaggletooth grin and a penchant for righting overturned vessels.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2025
Just as she’s reaching for an amusingly, metaphorically ripe peach, her idyll is cut short by a gang of snaggletooth, hygiene-challenged bikers.
From New York Times • May 15, 2024
But it’s not just its snaggletooth — which can be up to nine feet long — that makes this Arctic sea creature unbelievable.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2016
The skeleton will allow scientists to compare the prehistoric snaggletooth, an extinct species, and modern snaggletooths, a descendant species that lives in the Pacific.
From Washington Post
He’d knock on the window, I’d let it down, and he’d say with a snaggletooth grin, “See you later, alligator.”
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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