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jaw-breaker

jaw-breaker is the alternative spelling of jawbreaker.

Meaning of jawbreaker

Noun

jawbreaker (plural jawbreakers)

  1. A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
    • If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.2005, Keith Zimmerman, MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    gobstopper
  2. A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
    • The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
  3. (slang) A hard blow to the side of the face.
    • Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]1987, James Clarke, Like it was: The Star, 100 Years in Johannesburg, page 9

Forms of jaw-breaker

pluraljaw-breakers

Questions about jaw-breaker

What is jaw-breaker the alternative spelling of?
Jaw-breaker is the alternative spelling of jawbreaker.

Words near jaw-breaker in the dictionary

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

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