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Jawbone   Listen
verb
jawbone  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. jawboned; pres. part. jawboning)  To attempt to influence solely by talking, as contrasted with threatening or inducing by other means, e.g. legislation; esp. to make public appeals in order to influence the behavior of businessmen or labor leaders; used especially of the President or other high government officials; as, to jawbone businessmen into forgoing price increases.





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"Jawbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... you shall have it presently. Now then, we'll begin. This case that I have just unpacked contains teeth and a small portion of a jawbone. Ah! hark! what is that? She is coming already! Will that woman never leave me in peace? My love, the object of my life, the one object of my whole life, has been to benefit and educate the young. I thought at last I had found a pupil, but, ah, I ...
— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade


Words linked to "Jawbone" :   chit-chat, pogonion, chew the fat, submaxilla, lower jaw, mandibular condyle, articulator, schmoose, lantern jaw, gossip, chaffer, gonion, symphysion, condyloid process, mandibular notch, mandible, schmooze, shoot the breeze, mandibular bone, chat, lower jawbone, shmooze, confab, confabulate, chitchat, gnathion, coronoid process of the mandible


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