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jaw-box

jaw-box is the alternative form of jawbox.

Meaning of jawbox

Noun

jawbox (plural jawboxes)

  1. (Scotland, dated) A tenement sink.
    • After a week he had to accept that he was growing a black beard, not because he wanted one, but because he could think of no way of shaving. There was a jaw-box in the tiny kitchen but no taps.1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal (chapter 3, p.90 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
    Synonyms:
    jaw-hole

Forms of jaw-box

pluraljaw-boxes

Questions about jaw-box

What is jaw-box the alternative form of?
Jaw-box is the alternative form of jawbox.

Words near jaw-box in the dictionary

  1. jaw's harps
  2. jaw's-trump
  3. jaw's-trumps
  4. jaw-bone
  5. jaw-bones
  6. jaw-box
  7. jaw-boxes
  8. jaw-breaker
  9. jaw-breakers
  10. jaw-dropper
  11. jaw-droppers

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