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Kleenex

[klee-neks]

Trademark.
  1. a brand name for a soft, disposable paper tissue, used especially as a handkerchief.



Kleenex

/ ˈkliːnɛks /

noun

  1. a kind of soft paper tissue, used esp as a handkerchief

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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They were standing in broad daylight in a Brooklyn park playing the “ping pong shake,” a game in which they were to shake ping-pong balls out of an empty Kleenex box strapped to their waist.

Grab a box of Kleenex and keep your rain boots handy.

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By the time we shot the wedding sequence, my God, there wasn’t enough Kleenex in the studio.

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These army-green, weatherproof devices are about the size of a Kleenex box, and typically strapped to a tree while they record virtually anything within earshot.

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Sometimes he'll shove the kid out his front door using his foot while his girlfriend cackles, "Why don't you make like a Kleenex and put some boogie in it!"

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