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Jawbone   /dʒˈɔbˌoʊn/   Listen
Jawbone

noun
1.
The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth.  Synonyms: jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla.



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"Jawbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... and boys riding skeleton horses, the rib bones shine, the rib bones curve, shine with savage, elegant curves— a jawbone runs with a long white slant, a skull dome runs with a long white arch, bone triangles click and rattle, elbows, ankles, white line slants— shining in the sun, past the White House, past the Treasury Building, Army and Navy Buildings, on to the mystic ...
— American Poetry, 1922 - A Miscellany • Edna St. Vincent Millay


Words linked to "Jawbone" :   chaffer, coronoid process of the mandible, chitchat, natter, shoot the breeze, mandibular notch, mandibular condyle, mandible, claver, gonion, chit-chat, mandibula, condylar process, jaw, gossip, lantern jaw, condyloid process, lower jaw, shmoose, submaxilla, pogonion, visit, chat, articulator, mandibular bone, symphysion, gnathion, chatter, confab, lower jawbone, chew the fat, schmoose, confabulate


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