grillz
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
plural of grill (“jewelry worn on the front teeth”)
Example Sentences
- "Now, with Jiggaman kinda, sorta retired and Nas beyond his glory days, Southern cats with gold grillz are running rap."
- "This black-brown-beige sea shimmered with sequined baseball caps, Cartier glasses, leather of every color, gloss-lacquered lips, and every style of denim, designer labels, diamond-studded gold grillz and jewelry, and hairstyles that shot beautiful sprays of braids and dreads and ’fros up toward the ornate gold-painted balconies and chandeliered ceiling."
- "Most of the young cats had dreads with the ends dipped in red dye, gold grillz, and tall white tees that reached their knees."
- "GOLD GRILLZ CLASS LEARN TO MAKE GOLD TEETH IN ONLY 3 DAYS!"
- "No longer are iced-out grillz just for rappers. They are now going mainstream, with a variety of people from all walks of life flossin’ gold grillz - including K-State students. […] “Now it is just for show. Coming up in the South as a young kid, the older guys had gold grillz, big cars and big rims. That’s all you see.” […] “It’s just a trend. It started in the South, but now people in St. Louis, New York and California have grillz,” Willis said. People get grillz for numerous reasons – whether it be to show what hood they are from, to just wanting to stick out from the crowd. […] Grillz are removable so anyone could be a professional by day and crunk by night."
- "As players advance, dollars are earned that can be spent in a virtual store stocked with all the accoutrements and rewards of success: the latest styles from Jordan sneakers, Avirex jackets, Ecko shirts, Sean John jeans and, of course, gold grillz for the teeth."