Talk:flossable

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Alternate sense?

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I came across the following use of the word flossable, in Murr Brewster's My Oregon Trail: Trekking from Boston with $200 and a bike (Christian Science Monitor, 25hth of May 2023):

By the time we reached the Pacific Ocean in mid-July, I was brown as a nut and had flossable quadriceps […]

I'm trying to make sense of exactly what flossable quadriceps are — big ones, I presume, but I'm finding it difficult to reconcile this with the ordinary meaning of the word: able to be flossed. Is this a different sense which is simply not listed on flossable yet? 188.108.111.215 07:10, 28 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Seems a humorous one-off usage. Strongly defined muscles that a piece of dental floss could be run up and down between. Equinox 07:16, 28 May 2023 (UTC)Reply