The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TRIFLES
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More clues leading to the result TRIFLES
- . Tense searches producing unimportant stuff
- Flirt terribly with employees on vacation — perhaps they’re full of sherry?
- Weapon carried in street over minor matters
- Filters out small amounts
- Brat finally hurls desserts
- Touches muzzle of tommy guns
- Attempts to cross the floor, they don’t mean much
- Head of thieves ransacks baubles
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What does TRIFLES mean?
TRIFLES noun- An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- A very small amount (of something).
- A particular kind of pewter.
- Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
- To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- To inconsequentially toy with something.
- To squander or waste.
- To make a trifle of, to make trivial.