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jawbone
[ jaw-bohn ]
verb (used with or without object)
, jaw·boned, jaw·bon·ing.
- Informal. to attempt to influence or pressure by persuasion rather than by the exertion of force or one's authority, as in urging voluntary compliance with economic guidelines:
The president jawboned the steel industry into postponing price increases.
adjective
- Informal. obtained by or resorting to such a practice:
jawbone controls.
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Example Sentences
However, the inevitable gansas were here, but silent; one of them tied by its string to a human jaw-bone as a handle.
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In one of them a jaw bone was found not quite consumed, but in general they contained only ashes.
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Is it not still more wonderful that Samson should have slain so many Philistines with the jaw-bone of an ass?
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But for some such precaution, it would have been impossible to have knocked out the tooth, without breaking the jaw-bone.
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I tore a branch from an oak, and I became as Samson with the jaw-bone of the ass.
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