Idiom
laughing tackle
Meaning
Teeth.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He showed off his laughing tackle with a wide grin.”
“She went to the dentist to get her laughing tackle cleaned and checked.”
“The old man flashed a bright, toothy smile, revealing a surprisingly well-preserved laughing tackle.”
Examples
simple
“He showed off his laughing tackle with a wide grin.”
contextual
“She went to the dentist to get her laughing tackle cleaned and checked.”
complex
“The old man flashed a bright, toothy smile, revealing a surprisingly well-preserved laughing tackle.”
Origin
From *laughing* + *tackle*. The term is a compound of the present participle and the Middle English *tackle*, used in this instance to denote the apparatus of the mouth.
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