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The style, which separates the wearer’s big toe from the other four — the division is thought to improve balance — evolved from traditional socks often worn with thong sandals.
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Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Place your big toe pad on a small lift, such as a thin book, with your other toes on the ground.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The pain usually starts quickly and severely, which may help distinguish it from other kinds of pain in the big toe joint.4
Other types of inflammatory arthritis, like rheumatoid arthritis, might also cause pain in the big toe's MTP joint.
—Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 17 Jan. 2025
Bunions and hammertoes Bunions, which are painful bumps that form at the base of the big toe, are more common in women due to factors like genetics and years of wearing tight or ill-fitting shoes.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 24 Oct. 2024
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Kin Woo, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Place your big toe pad on a small lift, such as a thin book, with your other toes on the ground.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
The pain usually starts quickly and severely, which may help distinguish it from other kinds of pain in the big toe joint.4
Other types of inflammatory arthritis, like rheumatoid arthritis, might also cause pain in the big toe's MTP joint.
—Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 17 Jan. 2025
Bunions and hammertoes Bunions, which are painful bumps that form at the base of the big toe, are more common in women due to factors like genetics and years of wearing tight or ill-fitting shoes.
—Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Big toe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big%20toe. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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big toe
noun
: the innermost and largest digit of the foot
called also great toe
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