Meaning & use
bucktooth
A large front tooth that projects noticeably forward or outward beyond the others.
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The cartoon rabbit was drawn with an exaggerated bucktooth to make it look comical.
An orthodontist can often correct a bucktooth with braces during a child's early teens.
A note on using this word
Bucktooth is usually used in its adjective form, buck-toothed, to describe a person's appearance rather than as a clinical medical term.
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