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SWEET TOOTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet tooth mean?
• SWEET TOOTH (noun)
The noun SWEET TOOTH has 1 sense:
1. a strong appetite for sweet food
Familiarity information: SWEET TOOTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strong appetite for sweet food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("sweet tooth" is a kind of...):
appetence; appetency; appetite (a feeling of craving something)
Context examples
The treated mice socialized more and their characteristic rodent sweet tooth came back.
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