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JAWBREAKER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jawbreaker mean?
• JAWBREAKER (noun)
The noun JAWBREAKER has 2 senses:
1. a large round hard candy
2. a word that is hard to pronounce
Familiarity information: JAWBREAKER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large round hard candy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("jawbreaker" is a kind of...):
hard candy (candy that is brittle)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A word that is hard to pronounce
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("jawbreaker" is a kind of...):
polysyllabic word; polysyllable (a word of more than three syllables)
Context examples
What's that jawbreaker definition about something or other, of Spencer's, that you sprang on us the other day—that indefinite, incoherent homogeneity thing?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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