tongue twister

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   an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly

   “`rubber baby buggy bumper' is a tongue twister”

   Broadersaying

Questions about tongue twister

What does tongue twister mean?

tongue twister means "an expression that is difficult to articulate clearly".

Is tongue twister a common word?

tongue twister is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.