horse tooth floater
n.— «Doc Ellers was very pleased, as he presented me with a set of old horse teeth floaters. He told me they worked much better than the new contraptions. He was eighty.» —by Re`al “Buill” Oney My Moody Indigo! , 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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