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grill
 n.— «“One of my friends, every tooth in his mouth is gold, every one of them.”…In hip-hop parlance, they are called “grills” and “fronts” – a fashion statement and a state of mind where the more the merrier and the gaudier the better. » —“Gold teeth are making quite an impression” by Ron Harris St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mo.) Aug. 14, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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