Floss commonly refers to:
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Dental floss
Dental floss is a cord of thin filaments used in interdental cleaning to remove food and dental plaque from between teeth or places a toothbrush has difficulty reaching or is unable to reach. Its regular use as part of oral cleaning is designed t ...
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Meat floss
''Rousong'' or ''yuk sung or bak hu'' ( ; ), also known as meat floss, is a dried meat product with a light and fluffy texture similar to coarse cotton, originating from China. ''Rousong'' is used as a topping for many foods, such as congee, to ...
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Floss (dance)
The floss is a popular dance move in which a person repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
Etymology
The name comes from the moves themselves, which involve "a lot of fast a ...
Floss may also refer to:
Places
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Floß
Floß is a municipality in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in Bavaria, Germany.
Geography
Town subdivision
The civil parish Floß is composed of 35 official named districts.:
Characteristics
History
The origin of settlement ...
, in English spelling: Floss, a municipality in Bavaria, Germany
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Floß (river), in English spelling: Floss, a river of Bavaria, Germany
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Floss, Arkansas, an unincorporated community, United States
Art, entertainment, and media
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''Floss'' (mixtape), by Injury Reserve
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"Floss" (song), by AJ Tracey
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Floss McPhee
Floss McPhee is a fictional character from the Australian television soap opera ''Home and Away'', played by Sheila Kennelly. The character made her first screen appearance on 17 January 1988, which was the show's pilot episode. She departed in ...
, a character in the soap opera ''Home and Away''
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Silken Floss
The Spirit is a fictional masked crimefighter created by cartoonist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940, as the main feature of a 16-page, tabloid (paper size), tabloid-sized, newsprint comic book insert distributed in the Sunday editio ...
, a character in the comic and film ''The Spirit''
Computing
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FLOSS Weekly
FLOSS Weekly is a free and open-source software (FLOSS) themed netcast from the TWiT Network. The show premiered on April 7, 2006, and features interviews with prominent guests from the free software/open source community. It was originally hoste ...
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Free/libre and open-source software
People with the given name
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Floss Casasola (1903–1991), a British Honduran teacher involved in the Belizean Independence Movement
People with the surname
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Heinrich Joseph Floss (1819–1881), a church historian and theologian
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Herbert Floss
Herbert Floss or Herbert Floß (25 August 1912 – 22 October 1943) was an SS functionary of Nazi Germany who served as acting commander of the Sobibor extermination camp during the Holocaust in Poland. He also served as cremation expert in Camp ...
(1912–1943), an SS functionary of Nazi Germany
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Walter J. Floss Jr. (1923–2018), American politician
Other uses
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Candy floss
Cotton candy, also known as fairy floss and candy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It usually contains small amounts of flavoring or food coloring.
It is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifu ...
, or fairy floss (cotton candy)
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Common floss, another name for the shrub ''Chromolaena odorata''
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Embroidery floss, thread used in embroidery
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Floss flower, another name for ''Ageratum houstonianum''
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Al Flosso
Albert Levinson (better known by his stage name Al Flosso; Oct. 10, 1895 – May 13, 1976) was an American magician and entertainer.
Career
Levinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, and took his stage name from a vernacular or slang term for cot ...
(1895–1976), American magician
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Gaston Flosse
Gaston Flosse (born 24 June 1931) is a French politician who has been President of French Polynesia on five separate occasions. He is currently a member of the Senate of France and has been a French junior minister under Jacques Chirac. He receiv ...
(born 1931), French politician
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