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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 ball
  2. jaw beard
  3. jaw beards
  4. jaw bone
  5. jaw bones
  6. jaw breaker
  7. jaw breakers
  8. jaw down
  9. jaw harp
  10. jaw harpist
  11. jaw harpists

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