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Noun(1) a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected

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(1) If Bertuzzi were to be sued, every player who got a sliver or a hangnail because of an infraction, would be out for some money.(2) Tory found it was harder to keep calm if she was looking at Nell, and pretended to study a hangnail on her ring finger.(3) Legally, they make them sign deals saying don't come to me for a hangnail .(4) That's a nasty hangnail you've got there, Bremer.(5) I saw that I had torn the hangnail right off my finger without even noticing.(6) I got a hangnail , this is gonna distract me the entire fight, I'm gonna sit this one out.(7) You won't be covering your ears from the lack of pleasantries coming out of the speaker, but if you get busy picking at a pesky hangnail , you won't even notice that Desmond is on.(8) Children who bite their fingernails or pick at hangnails are more likely to get warts.(9) Keep the skin around your nails soft and supple and you won't get hangnails .(10) Topping my list is the Apricot Cuticle Oil, which tackles even the toughest hangnails and ragged cuticles.(11) Let's start with the ├ö├ç├┐finger sandwiches├ö├ç├û description: the crusts were not always neatly removed and you could only describe them as finger sandwiches if your fingers were the size of jumbo sausages with very large hangnails .(12) I'm not going to miss players barely running out fly balls and sitting out games over hangnails .(13) Colleen, on the other hand, hunching like a sloth, wearily dragged herself up after them, continuing to bite her hangnails .(14) She chews her hangnails and preoccupies herself with finding a place for her purse.(15) Thanks to the law, the millions who might divorce every year over hangnails , custody of the remote, who left the toilet seat up and other inconsequential differences of opinion, will come to their senses.(16) Lawyers will ask courts for dispensation for their athletes/clients who suffer from hangovers, hangnails , imperfectly ground prescription glasses, bad cholesterol.