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jawblock

UK/ˈdʒɔːblɒk/

jawblock verb: to talk.

Verb

jawblock (third-person singular simple present jawblocks, present participle jawblocking, simple past and past participle jawblocked)

  1. (US, dated, slang) To talk.
    • The first time we began to jawblock we found out that we were all from the jazz school, and that made us friends right away.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “They Found the Body in a Ditch”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 61

jawblock meaning in Bengali

jawblock in Bengali

কথা বলা

Forms of jawblock

third-person singular presentjawblocks
present participlejawblocking
past participlejawblocked
pastjawblocked

Origin of jawblock

From jaw + block.

Questions about jawblock

What does jawblock mean?
Jawblock means to talk.
What is jawblock in Bengali?
Jawblock in Bengali is কথা বলা. See Jawblock meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is jawblock?
Jawblock is a verb.
How do you pronounce jawblock?
Jawblock is pronounced /ˈdʒɔːblɒk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of jawblock?
The past tense of jawblock is jawblocked.

Words near jawblock in the dictionary

  1. jawars
  2. jawaub
  3. jawaubs
  4. jawbation
  5. jawbations
  6. jawblock
  7. jawblocked
  8. jawblocking
  9. jawblocks
  10. jawbone
  11. jawboned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jawblock (page history and authors); jawblock (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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