Crossword clues for jawbone
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
jawbone \jaw"bone`\ (j[add]"b[=o]n`), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. jawboned (j[add]"b[=o]nd`); p. pr. & vb. n. jawboning.] To attempt to influence solely by talking, as contrasted with threatening or inducing by other means, e.g. legislation; esp. to make public appeals in order to influence the behavior of businessmen or labor leaders; -- used especially of the President or other high government officials; as, to jawbone businessmen into forgoing price increases. [1913 Webster] -- jaw"bon*ing, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible. 2 Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw. vb. To talk persistently in persuasion of one or more people to cooperate.
WordNet
n. the lower jawbone in vertebrates; it is hinged to open the mouth [syn: lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla, lower jawbone, jowl]
v. talk idly or casually and in a friendly way [syn: shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose]
Wikipedia
The quijada [charrasga, or jawbone in English] is a traditional Latin percussion instrument traditionally made of the jawbone of either a mule, horse, or donkey. The jawbone is cleaned of tissue and dried to make the teeth loose and act as a rattle. To play, a musician holds one end in one hand and strikes the other with either a stick or their hand; this causes the teeth to rattle against the bone creating a loud, untuned sound, specific to this instrument. It is used in music in most of Latin America, including Mexico, Peru, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Cuba.
Jawbone can refer to the following:
- Mandible, the lower jaw bone
- Maxilla, the upper jaw bone of humans
- Jawbone (instrument), a musical instrument made from the jawbone of a donkey, horse, or zebra
- Jawbone (musician), blues musician Bob Zabor
- Jawbone (company), makers of Bluetooth headsets and activity trackers
- a sport sunglasses by Oakley, Inc., popularly used by professional race cyclists
- a song by the Band, on their 1969 album The Band
- a term in macroeconomics: jawboning
- in rural British Columbia and the southern Yukon, Canada, an expression equivalent to credit: "He gave me jawbone" means credit was advanced, usually by a merchant such as the Hudson's Bay Company.
Jawbone is the pseudonym of Bob Zabor, an American blues musician from Detroit. He is particularly unusual in that he is a one-man band. The instruments he plays include the harmonica, the guitar and the tambourine. He deliberately aims for a lo-fi sound, akin to early blues recordings.
He appeared on the BBC's John Peel show, and has been included on various magazine CDs there.
Jawbone is an American privately held consumer technology and wearable products company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops and sells wearable technology such as the Jawbone UP2, UP3 and UP4 wristbands and portable audio devices, including the Jambox and Big Jambox wireless speakers, the Jawbone Era and Icon Bluetooth headsets, and NoiseAssassin technology. Jawbone argues that wearable products could be at the heart of the connected home, enabling the so-called ' Internet of Things,' or as defined by Jawbone CEO and co-founder Hosain Rahman, 'the Internet of me.' In 2010, the company was awarded Design of the Decade from the IDSA. Jawbone owns over 230 patents related to UP and its wearable technology manufacturing processes.
Jawbone is an American band, and they primarily play hardcore punk. They come from Evansville, Indiana. The band started making music, in 2009. The group has lead vocalist, Clint Vaught, lead guitarist, Aaron Travis, bassist, Hieronymus Mitchell, and drummer, Neil Engleman. Their first extended play, Loss of Innocence, was released in 2011 by Blood and Ink Records.
Usage examples of "jawbone".
His wide mouth thrust forward more prominently than did his wide and flattened nose and he had no chin to speak of, only a jawbone that curved smoothly down and back.
One was hinged at the outermost extremity of the jawbone and was used in eating.
It was another consideration that stopped him: the queer taste in his mouth and the itch along the side of his jawbone and down the line of his backbone.
For it would bear out that this skull and jawbone which I was taking away had actually been there.
The bright crimson cord holding jawbone to skull, as I found when the tough wrapping paper finally fell away, revealing the, skull, its jet-black letters uppermost, had not even slipped during all of its travels.
As a further inducement, Thap suggested that the jawbone of mature swampfish, which turned an awesome pink color was perfect for making jewelry.
She followed the jawbone with her finger, seeking out that tiny niche halfway along the line of it.
While at work, they unexpectedly came upon a human jawbone buried fourteen feet below the surface of the soil.
He did not talk much and he did not ask questions, not even about the jawbone, which the gunslinger turned over and over in his hands during his evening smoke.
Jake had been huddled by the ruins of the tiny fire, the jawbone across his knees, gnawing disconsolately on the bones of the rabbit.
He awoke with a gasp, instinctively reaching for the jawbone that was no longer there, expecting to feel the grass of that ancient grove.
Blindly, the gunslinger sought the jawbone, but it was gone, lost somewhere, used up.
But as to the meaning of these ceremonies, and as to what is done with the jawbone, we have no exact information.
Hagen, the whole skull is dug up and separated from the corpse after the lapse of about a year, but only the lower jawbone is carefully kept by the nearest kinsman as a memorial of the deceased.
Similarly in Uganda the jawbone is the only part of the body of a deceased king which, along with his navel-string, is carefully preserved in his temple-tomb and consulted oracularly.