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jaws

nounnounverbattested in dialogue

  • //d͡ʒɔːz//
  • //d͡ʒɑz//

The mouth.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of jawplural of jaw

noun

  1. 1

    The mouth.

  2. 2

    The borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.

    Open the jaws of the wrench and wide as possible.

    The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down.

  3. 3

    A contrarian.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of jawthird-person singular simple present indicative of jaw

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).