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jaw
verb(jaw)
talk socially without exchanging too much information
Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit,
jaw
verb(jaw)
censure severely or angrily
Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce,
jaw
verb(jaw)
talk incessantly and tiresomely
Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away,
jaw
verb(jaw)
chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate,
Examples:
He jawed his bubble gum.
jaw
noun(jaw)
holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
jaw
noun(jaw)
the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
jaw
noun(jaw)
the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

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