jowls

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  1. noun The jaw, especially the lower jaw.
  2. noun The cheek.
  3. noun The flesh under the lower jaw, especially when plump or flaccid.

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  • Pale, papery skin covered her soft jowls, and deep frown lines furrowed her forehead. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
  • With buzz cut blond hair and heavy jowls, a polyester suit and a tie that wore the remnants of his last meal, he looked like a caricature to her, something out of some screenwriter's nightmare vision of an old-boy cop. —  Chapter1
  • The fluorescent light flickered, jaundicing his jowls, and Quincy found himself pondering the agent's presence once again. —  The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  • I'm developing jowls, to match my puffing belly Tom was the only man who ever loved me. —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • The very fatness of the two was unspeakably offensive—the greasy swollen jowls, the necks folding over collars, the barrel thighs. —  Thrilling Wonder Stories April, 1953
 

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