JAWBONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jawbone mean? 

• JAWBONE (noun)
  The noun JAWBONE has 1 sense:

1. the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

  Familiarity information: JAWBONE used as a noun is very rare.

• JAWBONE (verb)
  The verb JAWBONE has 1 sense:

1. talk idly or casually and in a friendly way

  Familiarity information: JAWBONE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAWBONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

jawbone; jowl; lower jaw; lower jawbone; mandible; mandibula; mandibular bone; submaxilla

Hypernyms ("jawbone" is a kind of...):

articulator (a movable speech organ)

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

Meronyms (parts of "jawbone"):

gnathion (the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline)

gonion (the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw)

mandibular notch (small indentation in the middle of the lower jawbone)

pogonion (the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin)

symphysion (the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible)

condylar process; condyloid process; mandibular condyle (the condyle of the ramus of the mandible that articulates with the skull)

coronoid process of the mandible (the coronoid process that provides an attachment for the temporal muscle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jawbone"):

lantern jaw (a long thin lower jaw)

• JAWBONE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Talk idly or casually and in a friendly way

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze

Hypernyms (to "jawbone" is one way to...):

chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit (talk socially without exchanging too much information)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

A metal device that is surgically placed in the jawbone.

(Dental implant, NCI Dictionary)

The upper jawbone in vertebrates; it is fused to the cranium.

(Maxilla, NCI Thesaurus)

Materials placed into (endosseous) or onto (subperiosteal) the jawbone; commonly used to support a crown, bridge, artificial tooth, stabilize a diseased tooth, or to use as anchorage in orthodontic therapy.

(Dental implant, NCI Thesaurus)

So the King ’e sent one of his genelmen down to Figg and he said to him: ‘’Ere’s a cove vot cracks a bone every time ’e lets vly, and it’ll be little credit to the Lunnon boys if they lets ’im get avay vithout a vacking.’ So Figg he ups, and he says, ‘I do not know, master, but he may break one of ’is countrymen’s jawbones vid ’is vist, but I’ll bring ’im a Cockney lad and ’e shall not be able to break ’is jawbone with a sledge ’ammer.’ I was with Figg in Slaughter’s coffee-’ouse, as then vas, ven ’e says this to the King’s genelman, and I goes so, I does!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)