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  • adjective Alternative form of jaw-dropping.

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Examples

  • Jay Leno in a Super Bowl ad for Letterman's show gives whole new meaning to term jawdropping (

    WN.com - Articles related to CBEC ropes in Akshay Kumar for TV commercial 2010

  • For all anyone knows, al-Qaida's gloating in its murderous glossy magazine, Inspire, and Niall Ferguson's talk of a caliphate are just as otiose as Blair's jawdropping exhortation, given his legacy of mayhem, for the west to show "the courage of our convictions, and the self-confident belief we can achieve them".

    Women are often the losers when the west weighs in | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • That said, the lawsuit contains at least one jawdropping allegation that makes Fusion Garage look supremely, hand-wringingly, cacklingly evil.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Grins and a group hug later, the band upstaged their jawdropping visuals with the sight of five men performing the classic pop anthems that made them – Pray, Relight My Fire, and Back For Good – and dancing and smiling like they'd never been away.

    Take That – review 2011

  • So, we're a week into the Maximum India festival at the Kennedy Center, and so far, crowds have flocked to see tabla wizard Zakir Hussain make magic with the National Symphony Orchestra; fusion rockers Emergence and Soulmate redefine "Indian music"; pop singer Kailash Kher's party on the Millennium Stage; and Sunday night's jawdropping performance of Odissi by dance company Nrityagram.

    Maximum India at the Kennedy Center: What to see this week 2011

  • It's the SF bits of this annual that catch my eye mostly, but there's a jawdropping range of alternate modes of derring do, only slightly tarnished by some horrid unreconstructed racism.

    Lion Annual 1957 Adam Roberts 2010

  • It's the SF bits of this annual that catch my eye mostly, but there's a jawdropping range of alternate modes of derring do, only slightly tarnished by some horrid unreconstructed racism.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • Went straight to the house where I'm renting a room (my roommate is the talented director of Dockweiler, which I wrote about before; strange how things come together), which has a jawdropping view from a deck which, as Nick pointed out, is a little unstable (it has a big hole in it) and hangs over a roughly three-story drop directly onto cacti.

    Archive 2010-02-01 N A 2010

  • The differences ranged from 36 percent fewer calories to a jawdropping 200 percent more!

    What menu calorie counts don't tell you 2010

  • There are few more jawdropping pop spectacles than Pink's Funhouse Summer Carnival tour, which marks the edgy American superstar's ascent to stadiums.

    Pink 2010

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