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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).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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Tetanus is also commonly called lockjaw or the death grip.
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Tetanus is also commonly called lockjaw.
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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. (source)lockjaw = a spasm of the jaw muscles so that the jaw remains tightly closed -- caused by a bacterial infection
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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
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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)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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You want lockjaw or typhoid or a combination?† (source)
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(acidly) Any time you only take one sip of a drink, you'll have lockjaw and paralysis† (source)
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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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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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