jawnoun
uk/dʒɔː/us/dʒɑː/jaw noun (BODY PART)
B2 [ C ] the lower part of your face that moves when you open your mouth:
[ C ] either of the two bones in your mouth that hold your teeth:
the mouth of a person or animal, especially a large and frightening animal:
something that opens and closes like the upper and lower parts of a mouth:
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- "I'm never going back to him, " she said, setting her jaw firmly.
- I could tell from the set of his jaw that he was angry.
- He socked the policeman on the jaw.
- She punched him square on the jaw.
- He jutted his jaw out defiantly.
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The head & face
- -cheeked
- -chinned
- -faced
- chin
- countenance
- dimple
- facial
- facies
- frontalis
- hairline
- mandible
- nape
- neck
- nose
- nucha
- nuchal
- pes anserinus
- splenius
- temple
- temporal
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jaw noun (DANGER)
something dangerous:
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Dangers and threats
- baneful
- black spot
- brinkmanship
- calculated risk
- chance
- darkly
- desperately
- dodgy
- firetrap
- hazard
- hazardous
- hazmat
- high-risk
- hostage
- perilous
- poisoned chalice
- precarious
- pull
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- treacherous
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jaw noun (TALK)
[ S ] informal a talk:
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Informal talking & conversation
- a problem shared is a problem halved idiom
- bants
- blarney
- chatter
- chew
- confab
- conversation-stopper
- converse
- exchange
- gas
- make yourself understood idiom
- natter
- orally
- pass
- pillow talk
- shoptalk
- talk shop idiom
- understand
- vox pop
- wash your dirty linen in public idiom
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Idiom(s)
jawverb [ I ]
uk/dʒɔː/us/dʒɑː/informalto talk for a long time:
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Informal talking & conversation
- a problem shared is a problem halved idiom
- bants
- blarney
- chatter
- chew
- confab
- conversation-stopper
- converse
- exchange
- gas
- make yourself understood idiom
- natter
- orally
- pass
- pillow talk
- shoptalk
- talk shop idiom
- understand
- vox pop
- wash your dirty linen in public idiom
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