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jawblocking

jawblocking is the present participle and gerund of jawblock.

Meaning of jawblock

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

Questions about jawblocking

What is jawblocking the present participle and gerund of?
Jawblocking is the present participle and gerund of jawblock.

Words near jawblocking in the dictionary

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

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