Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A very hard candy.
- n. Slang A word that is difficult to pronounce.
- n. A machine that crushes rock or ore.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a word that is hard to pronounce
- n. a large round hard candy
Examples
“But when Sally brought out the trove of products Nora had ordered the time before, Bobby expected the same look of glee he got on his face whenever he bought something new, even something as small as a jawbreaker from the candy shelf at the grocery store.”
“I always wondered what kind of jawbreaker name was Pachacutec”
“That night, alone in the house with its electric hum, the dragon slept on his mildewed blanket in the media room, dreaming of virgin foliage and jawbreaker planets shiny in the onyx sky.”
“Panchito worked on his jawbreaker until his tongue and lips and teeth were blue, blue, blue.”
“He bought a giant jawbreaker and a tiny bag of jellybeans.”
“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?”
“Silver dragees are the small, shiny, jawbreaker-like balls that often adorn fancy looking cakes and cupcakes.”
“Then, they may be safe, but a Senate aide notes: "Don't try to bite directly into any whole jawbreaker, gobstopper, jolly rancher, or for that matter, atomic fireball, before you soften it up, as it can damage your teeth.”
The Washington Post: Atomic Fireball threat contained on the Hill
“The spicy cinnamon candies may be safe, but a Senate aide notes: "Don't try to bite directly into any whole jawbreaker, Gobstopper, Jolly Rancher, or for that matter, Atomic Fireball, before you soften it up, as it can damage your teeth.”
The Washington Post: AFGE pushes for flextime at Labor Department
“Witness my life or death struggle with a jawbreaker the size of a toddler's head!”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jawbreaker’.
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitstaffy, alcorza, chew, chocolate, confectionary, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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There's a sucker born every minute
Confections to sweeten the breath.
dragée, cachou, betel, chew, chaw, gum, bubblegum, gumball, mint, peppermint, mint imperial, after dinner mint and 21 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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What, another list?
ravishing, ravenous, pronk, brinksmanship, jaspe, mottle, chasm, testy, temperament, ponder, personally, phantom and 206 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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portablec's Words
jawbreaker, narnad, pax, chaw, vealpie, saltherring, decisive, rummaged, raggedy, trifle, scribblement, numskull and 50 more...
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