Definitions
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- noun North America A generic term for any type of disposable
tissue .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Five knuckles and a kleenex is much more edifying than seeing her 'O'-face, I can tell you
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Five knuckles and a kleenex is much more edifying than seeing her 'O'-face, I can tell you
Brown Defends Home Secretary in 'Porngate' Dungeekin 2009
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She also regularly wraps things small things in kleenex and shower curtains from the various hotels they stay at.
Common Household Items Make Packing Easier | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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After a week of drowning in kleenex and misery a girl re-emerges with a strong desire to get back to her old self.
Eating my way to back to health. Michele 2007
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I don't know if sitting here spitting into a kleenex is helping or if the vodka is clearing out my mucusy throat, but all I really want is to get back to sleep.
January 29th, 2002 2002
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That might do to Google what the word kleenex does to Kleenex, legos to LEGO, or saran wrap to Saran.
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For now I'm going to go back downstairs to where the kleenex are and maybe attempt to look at the words in a book, or write a few words, or something, for a while. miles to Dunharrow: 25
christmas l00t rfrancis 2006
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We buy "kleenex" by the case at Costco, and now that I've discovered that Costco sells tuna in 7-oz cans while the rest of the world has been shorted into 5-oz cans I'll be stocking up on that as well.
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Huzzah for OC comforts such as kleenex, pantyliners, energy drinks, tick removers and gel soles.
We had great fun at Omen nathreee 2009
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And I'll be ALL too happy to pass 'em a "kleenex" to wipe the tears away .........
treeseed commented on the word kleenex
Tradename for a large line of paper products that includes cleansing tissues
January 24, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word kleenex
My mentally-challenged little sister calls Kleenex "Clean-us-es", which endears me to her every time I hear it. Makes perfect sense to her - function and plural because there are lots in a box.
August 28, 2009