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n. - A tool used to clean a person's fingertips.

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  • Or stolen the missing nailbrush in the upstairs loo? '
  • His wiry, bony hands ignore a nailbrush and the luxury of lemon.
  • To keep them clean, the nailbrush and soap and water should be used once or oftener daily, as circumstances demand.
  • Clive returned from the washroom where he'd spent a quarter of an hour scraping at the coal-dust with the nailbrush.
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