feather lift
n.— «Checking out the new “Feather Lift.” The secret password of this L.A. summer. Some plastic surgeons are already experimenting in the hottest new development in plastic surgery in years: doing less invasive (and quick healing) surgeries with lifting skin with cords attached from one internal area of the face to another.» —“How L.A. fashionistas spend their summers” Fashion Week Daily June 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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