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have wind in one's jaw

have wind in one's jaw is the alternative form of get wind in one's jaws.

Meaning of get wind in one's jaws

Verb

get wind in one's jaws (third-person singular simple present gets wind in one's jaws, present participle getting wind in one's jaws, simple past got wind in one's jaws, past participle got wind in one's jaws or gotten wind in one's jaws)

  1. (Southern, US, idiomatic, informal) To have too much to say; talk too much; run at the mouth; to speak one's mind or voice one's opinion about a matter; blabber
    • And anytime you got wind in your jaw you were automatically fired.1979, The Albemarle Monthly - Volume 3, Issues 1-3, page 49

Forms of have wind in one's jaw

third-person singular presenthas wind in one's jaw
present participlehaving wind in one's jaw
past participlehad wind in one's jaw
pasthad wind in one's jaw

Questions about have wind in one's jaw

What is have wind in one's jaw the alternative form of?
Have wind in one's jaw is the alternative form of get wind in one's jaws.

Words near have wind in one's jaw in the dictionary

  1. have truck with
  2. have two strings to one's bow
  3. have up
  4. have Van Gogh's ear for music
  5. have way
  6. have wind in one's jaw
  7. have words
  8. have work done
  9. have you eaten
  10. have you got the time
  11. have you met me

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Adapted from Wiktionary: have wind in one's jaw (page history and authors); get wind in one's jaws (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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