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jawbreakers

jawbreakers is the plural 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

Questions about jawbreakers

What is jawbreakers the plural of?
Jawbreakers is the plural of jawbreaker.

Words near jawbreakers in the dictionary

  1. jawbonist
  2. jawbonists
  3. jawbox
  4. jawboxes
  5. jawbreaker
  6. jawbreakers
  7. jawbreaking
  8. jawbreakingly
  9. jawdropper
  10. jawdroppers
  11. jawdropping

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