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jaw

English

  1. 🔊 holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
  2. 🔊 the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
  3. 🔊 the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it
  4. 🔊 talk incessantly and tiresomely
  5. 🔊 chew (food)
    “He jawed his bubble gum”
  6. 🔊 censure severely or angrily
    “The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car”
  7. 🔊 talk socially without exchanging too much information
    “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 mandíbula jaw
  2. 🔊 quejo jaw
  3. 🔊 quijada jaw, jawbone (of an animal)

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