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jawbreaker

noun

Etymology

From jaw + breaker.

  1. inherited from breker
  2. compounded as jawbreaker — “jaw + breaker”

Definitions

  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.

  2. A long, hard-to-pronounce word.

    • The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.

  3. A hard blow to the side of the face.

    • Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA