[
US
/ˈdʒɔ/
]
[ UK /dʒˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɔː/ ]
NOUN
- holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
VERB
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talk socially without exchanging too much information
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze - talk incessantly and tiresomely
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censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup -
chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
The cows were masticating the grass
He jawed his bubble gum
Chew your food and don't swallow it!
How To Use jaw In A Sentence
- The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
- Soldiers resemble worker termites, except that they have enlarged brownish heads and strong, well-developed jaws.
- Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
- Leave it to the Democrats to once again snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. Rendell: 'Very unlikely' Clinton will win
- The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
- There is no suggestion of a pronounced twist in the ventral margin of the jaw of Hynerpeton like that seen in Densignathus.
- Another disease caused by a fungus is “actinomycosis”, which in cattle and other animals is called “lumpy jaw”. A Close Look at Parasitic Diseases
- The assembled opposition members, journalists and tourism industry heavies were slack-jawed.
- The organisation's shield consisted of a male forearm whose fist was thrusting the point of a spear into the jaws of a wolf. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
- Manzo noticed the neatly trimmed goatee and mustache combination that framed Rossiter's facial features and the chiseled jaw of a man who was in peak physical condition.
