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)

Meaning:

The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

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

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"):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

lantern jaw (a long thin lower jaw)

• JAWBONE (verb)

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; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit (talk socially without exchanging too much information)

Sentence frame:

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