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What (who) is JAW - definition
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Jaws (disambiguation); JAWS; Jaws (software); Jaw (disambiguation); JAW
jaw
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n.
1.
Maxillary bone, jaw-bone.
2.
(Low.) Vituperation, abusive talk.
3.
Wall (of a pass), enclosing crag, throat.
jaw
¦ noun
1. each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth.
(jaws) the grasping, biting, or crushing mouthparts of an invertebrate.
2. (jaws) the gripping parts of a wrench, vice, etc.
3. (jaws) the grasping or destructive power of something: the jaws of death.
4. informal tedious talk.
¦ verb informal talk at length.
Derivatives
-jawed adjective
jawless adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr. joe 'cheek, jaw', of unknown origin.
jaw
(jaws)
1.
Your jaw is the lower part of your face below your mouth. The movement of your jaw is sometimes considered to express a particular emotion. For example, if your jaw drops, you are very surprised.
He thought for a moment, stroking his well-defined jaw...
N-COUNT: usu sing, poss N
2.
A person's or animal's jaws are the two bones in their head which their teeth are attached to.
...a forest rodent with powerful jaws.
N-COUNT
3.
If you talk about the jaws of something unpleasant such as death or hell, you are referring to a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
A family dog rescued a newborn boy from the jaws of death.
N-PLURAL: N of n
Examples of use of JAW
1. Jaw–jaw has to be better than a slide to war–war.
2. To reverse Churchill‘s post–1'45 adage: they made war–war not jaw–jaw.
3. As Winston Churchill observed, jaw–jaw is always better than war–war.
4. No deescalate and stabilize, honest–broker, diplomatic jaw–jaw from this president.
5. Also excavated was a skeleton of a man whose lower jaw was fused to his upper jaw.