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Film featuring cross-dressing little piggy (7)

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tootsie

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'film' is the definition.
(1982 film)

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(Other definitions for tootsie that I've seen before include "Part of foot" , "Foot (jocular)" , "Foot or toe - I set, too (anag)" , "Film with Dustin Hoffman" , "A child's foot?" .)

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