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Tetanus is also commonly called lockjaw or the death grip.
lockjaw = a deadly bacterial infection that results in a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed
- The Masai guide said members of his tribe have a gap cut between their front teeth so that nutrients cam be consumed in the event of lockjaw (tetanus).
- Tetanus is also commonly called lockjaw.
- Lockjaw came to mind—the twisting, tortured life of being doomed. (source)
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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.
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lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection
- 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)
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I seen people get lockjaw and die from way less than I had wrong with me.
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lockjaw = a deadly bacterial infection that results in a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed
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If you step on one, you'll get lockjaw and die.
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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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It was six months after my best friend, Bluford Jackson, got firecrackers for Christmas and burned his hand on one and died of lockjaw ten days latter.
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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)
- You want lockjaw or typhoid or a combination?† (source)
- Sir, do you think it was God's will for Bluford Jackson to get lockjaw and die? (source)
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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.
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lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection
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Right then she remembered the lockjaw.
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lockjaw = a bacteria that causes severe spasms and can be fatal
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Just get lockjaw.
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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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And then I thought about my friend Bluford Jackson, the one who got lockjaw after firecrackers burned his hand last Christmas.
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lockjaw = a deadly bacterial infection that results in a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed
- We were talking about it that morning we climbed up the water tower to throw down lighted firecrackers and scare people — the day Blu got the firecracker burn that gave him lockjaw. (source)
- (acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll have lockjaw and paralysis!† (source)
- And here's hopin' he gets de lockjaw!† (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)
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Mud head to foot. Cut your hand open. Lockjaw. They make
you kaputt, Leopoldleben. (source)lockjaw = bacterial infection typically contracted through a puncture wound with a dirty object
- I can't catch cholera, either, or lockjaw, or the morbid sore throat.† (source)
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- 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)
- She opened his nightstand drawer and fingered the silky tassel of a bookmark, the metal teeth of a lockjawed stapler.† (source)
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