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  • noun Alternative form of nail file.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small flat file for shaping the nails

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Examples

  • Able to slip through the bars, she would have then used a nailfile hidden in her beehive to pick the lock.

    Winehouse Escape Plot Foiled Push Jelly 2008

  • Able to slip through the bars, she would have then used a nailfile hidden in her beehive to pick the lock.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Push Jelly 2008

  • This is just one of the Objects shown tonight, others are a pen that can microwave anyone it touches, a nailfile that makes you drop off to sleep and a bus ticket that teleports you to a highway miles away from your original position.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Bob Lock 2007

  • This is just one of the Objects shown tonight, others are a pen that can microwave anyone it touches, a nailfile that makes you drop off to sleep and a bus ticket that teleports you to a highway miles away from your original position.

    The Lost Room Bob Lock 2007

  • (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner).

    Ulysses 2003

  • He would need tweezers and a nailfile to work out the key that Jessie had left.

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

  • Uwantit (Combined pocket twoblade penknife with corkscrew, nailfile and pipecleaner).

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The Secure comes with other tools as well - a blade, nailfile, screwdriver, scissors, key ring, LED light and ballpoint pen.

    TG Daily Emma Woollacott 2010

  • This is not helped when Simran lifts her nailfile, looks at my nails and says, 'Well, there's nothing I can do with those, is there?'

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • This is not helped when Simran lifts her nailfile, looks at my nails and says, 'Well, there's nothing I can do with those, is there?'

    The Guardian World News 2009

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