Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jawbone

1 sense of jawbone

Sense 1
lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla, lower jawbone, jawbone, jowl -- (the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth)
       => jaw -- (the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth)
       => articulator -- (a movable speech organ)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb jawbone

1 sense of jawbone

Sense 1
shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone -- (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)
       => chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit -- (talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze")

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