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lockjaw
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  • Lockjaw came to mind—the twisting, tortured life of being doomed.  (source)
  • He began making wisecracks in a lockjaw accent about how I was going to become one of those fur-wearing, pinkie-extending, nose-in-the-air New Yorkers.  (source)
    lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection
  • If you step on one, you'll get lockjaw and die.  (source)
    lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection that is typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
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  • But unfortunately' she said, with an attempt at a reciprocal smile that made her look as though she had lockjaw, 'it is what I think that counts, as they are in my House, Dolores.'  (source)
    lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection
  • He had that narrow-eyed, lockjawed look like he was starting to get steamed up, but you never know exactly where that's going to lead.†  (source)
    lockjawed = experiencing a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection that is typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • I seen people get lockjaw and die from way less than I had wrong with me.  (source)
    lockjaw = a deadly bacterial infection that results in a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed
  • She opened his nightstand drawer and fingered the silky tassel of a bookmark, the metal teeth of a lockjawed stapler.†  (source)
    lockjawed = experiencing a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection that is typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • Sir, do you think it was God's will for Bluford Jackson to get lockjaw and die?  (source)
    lockjaw = a deadly bacterial infection that results in a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed
  • I can do a great impression of a lockjaw germ.†  (source)
    lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection that is typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
  • You want lockjaw or typhoid or a combination?†  (source)
  • (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll have lockjaw and paralysis†  (source)
  • A lockjaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity that makes him eat grass; war, plague, cholera, famine indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.†  (source)
  • The Captains walked up to each other and shook hands; Diggory smiled at Wood but Wood no, looked as though he had lockjaw and merely nodded.  (source)
    lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection
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