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View synonyms for jaws

jaws

/ dʒɔːz /

plural noun

  1. the narrow opening of some confined place such as a gorge
  2. the jaws
    a dangerously close position

    the jaws of death

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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With his bare hands, he secures its head and puts its jaws over a shot glass covered in cling film.

From BBC

In “Happy Gilmore,” Sandler’s unlikely golf star confronts the feisty gator played by Morris after a golf ball lands in his toothy jaws.

Trump flapped his jaws for months on the campaign trail saying he would end the war in Ukraine on “day one.”

From Salon

After digging deep lesions with their powerful maggot jaws, anchoring themselves inside them with their external spikes, screwworm larvae feed on the living flesh, working their way to deeper tissues like the muscles.

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With their heavy eyebrows and square jaws, they look like a fretful phalanx of Martin Scorseses reluctantly conceding that the movie is pretty fun.

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