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Jawbone   /dʒˈɔbˌoʊn/   Listen
noun
Jawbone  n.  The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.



verb
jawbone  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. jawboned; pres. part. jawboning)  To attempt to influence solely by talking, as contrasted with threatening or inducing by other means, e.g. legislation; esp. to make public appeals in order to influence the behavior of businessmen or labor leaders; used especially of the President or other high government officials; as, to jawbone businessmen into forgoing price increases.






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"Jawbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... bone of the metacarpus. Another of the metatarsus. A fragment of the frontal or coronal bone, containing half of an orbital cavity. A middle third of the tibia. Two more fragments of tibia. Two astragoli. One upper portion of shoulder-blade. One fragment of the lower jawbone. One half of an os humeri, the whole constituting thirteen small and twenty-eight large fragments, there ...
— Santo Domingo - A Country With A Future • Otto Schoenrich

... have it presently. Now then, we'll begin. This case that I have just unpacked contains teeth and a small portion of a jawbone. Ah! hark! what is that? She is coming already! Will that woman never leave me in peace? My love, the object of my life, the one object of my whole life, has been to benefit and educate the young. I thought at last I had found a pupil, but, ah, I ...
— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade

... her to de house to read her something from a letter she got. De letter say that my father had married another woman. My mother was so upset she say, 'I hope he breaks dat woman's jawbone. She know she aint his lawful wife.' And dey say her wish come true. Dat was ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... quite as if he'd got captain's orders inside his hat—which was where he usually carried them. Mr. Job looked sidelong down his nose—he was a leggy old galliganter, with stiverish grey hair and a jawbone long enough to make Cap'n Jacka a new pair of shins—and said he, "What do'ee think ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground,as if 'twere Cain's jawbone, that did the first murder! This might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches; one that would circumvent ...
— Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]


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