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jawbreaker (plural jawbreakers)
- A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical.
- Synonym: (UK) gobstopper
- 2005, Keith Zimmerman, MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.
- A long, hard-to-pronounce word.
- Synonyms: mouthful, jaw-twister
- The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
- (boxing, slang) A hard blow to the side of the face.
- 1987, James Clarke, Like it was: The Star, 100 Years in Johannesburg, page 9:
- Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]
See also[edit]
- crackjaw
- niggerball (South African, dated, offensive)