Definition of jaws

"jaws" in the noun sense

1. jaw

the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

2. jaw

the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it the bones that hold the teeth

3. jaw

holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

"jaws" in the verb sense

1. chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit

talk socially without exchanging too much information

"the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

2. yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away

talk incessantly and tiresomely

3. chew, masticate, manducate, jaw

chew (food to bite and grind with the teeth

"He jawed his bubble gum"

"Chew your food and don't swallow it!"

"The cows were masticating the grass"

4. call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast

censure severely or angrily

"The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"

"The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"

"The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

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Quotations for jaws

The sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws. [ William Shakespeare ]

See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]

Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold. [ Claudianus ]

We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has not the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching shrieking fish. [ Leigh Hunt ]

jaws in Scrabble®

The word jaws is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters jaws:

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jaws in Words With Friends™

The word jaws is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters jaws:

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Words within the letters of jaws

2 letter words in jaws (1 word)

3 letter words in jaws (3 words)

4 letter words in jaws (1 word)

jaws + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence jaws

Words that start with jaws (1 word)

Words with jaws in them (1 word)

Words that end with jaws (3 words)

Word Growth involving jaws

Shorter words in jaws

jaw

Longer words containing jaws

crackjaws

lockjaws