"oil pull" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: oil pulls [plural]
Etymology: Back-formation from oil pulling. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|oil pulling}} Back-formation from oil pulling Head templates: {{en-noun}} oil pull (plural oil pulls)
  1. The act or an instance of oil pulling
    Sense id: en-oil_pull-en-noun--ljPZnXb Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English back-formations: 56 44 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44

Verb

Forms: oil pulls [present, singular, third-person], oil pulling [participle, present], oil pulled [participle, past], oil pulled [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from oil pulling. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|oil pulling}} Back-formation from oil pulling Head templates: {{en-verb}} oil pull (third-person singular simple present oil pulls, present participle oil pulling, simple past and past participle oil pulled)
  1. (transitive) To swish vegetable oil in one's mouth for the purpose of detoxing the body and healing the teeth and gums Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-oil_pull-en-verb-dvJnJwq1

Inflected forms

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