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jaw verb- to talk, especially in an argumentative or scolding fashion UK, 1748
- The boys were jawing in the office by the stove and the cash register[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 296, 10 January 1951
- I figured you’d done all the jawing you had to do when I talked to you an hour or so ago. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 66, 1952
- It was a slow morning for my friend and we jawed around. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 165, 1961
- She kept jawing at me to go back, and her putting me down all the time was worse than the silence. — Nat Hentoff, Jazz Country, p. 37, 1965
- Several months passed before I drove by the Conqueror’s favorite bar and decided to drop in and jaw a bit with him. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, p. 126, 1971
- He stared at the man’s back as he took his place on the fringe of a circle of dudes arguing, jawing at each other, as usual. What else was there to do in the county jail, after the watery oatmeal, crusty toast, and slimy coffee? — Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, p. 103, 1977
- in pool, to hit a ball that bounces off the sides of a pocket without dropping US
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 17, 1990
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