jawbone
Meaning
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- The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
- Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.
- A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.
- (slang) Credit.
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Etymology
In summary
From Middle English jawe bone, a variant of chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone.
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