The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TUSK
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result TUSK
- Big canine, last of eight by Welsh river
- Donald having time by river
- Donald, president of America, wearing turtleneck inside out
- Donald Trump, the first American king
- Tooth job, one out for you, say
- President Donald? I disapprove, gagging uncontrollably at first
- Pointedly attack Brussels bigwig
- President Donald‘s tense over son visiting this country
- The point of some pachyderms
- Oddly raise kiss up to man who required a backstop!
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The straight part
We know that "Tooth" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tooth = tusk.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TUSK mean?
TUSK noun- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A tusk shell.
- A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
- A sharp point.
- The share of a plough.
- To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
- To gore with the tusks.
- To bare or gnash the teeth.
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).