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Tongue with hot kiss rolling around, love it! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

xhosa

'tongue' is the definition.
(Xhosa is an example)

'hot kiss rolling around love it' is the wordplay.
'hot' becomes 'h'.
'kiss' becomes 'x'.
'rolling around' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'it' becomes 'sa' (old-fashioned abbreviation for sex appeal).
'h'+'x'='hx'
'hx' back-to-front is 'xh'.
'xh'+'o'+'sa'='XHOSA'

'with' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for xhosa that I've seen before include "Member of a Bantu-speaking tribe" , "Tribesman" , "South African cattle-rearing people" , "Cattle-rearer in South Africa" , "South African tribe" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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