Floss Explained

Floss commonly refers to:

• Dental floss
• Meat floss
• Floss (dance)

Floss may also refer to:

Places

• Floß, in English spelling: Floss, a municipality in Bavaria, Germany
• Floß (river), in English spelling: Floss, a river of Bavaria, Germany
• Floss, Arkansas, an unincorporated community, United States

Art, entertainment, and media

• Floss (mixtape), by Injury Reserve
• "Floss" (song), by AJ Tracey
• Floss McPhee, a character in the soap opera Home and Away
• Silken Floss, a character in the comic and film The Spirit

Computing

• FLOSS Weekly, a podcast of the twit.tv Network
• Free/libre and open-source software

People with the given name

• Floss Casasola (1903–1991), a British Honduran teacher involved in the Belizean Independence Movement

People with the surname

• Heinrich Joseph Floss (1819–1881), a church historian and theologian
• Herbert Floss (1912–1943), an SS functionary of Nazi Germany
• Walter J. Floss Jr. (1923–2018), American politician

Other uses

• Candy floss, or fairy floss (cotton candy)
• Common floss, another name for the shrub Chromolaena odorata
• Embroidery floss, thread used in embroidery
• Floss flower, another name for Ageratum houstonianum

See also

• Al Flosso (1895–1976), American magician
• Gaston Flosse (born 1931), French politician