What is "jawbreaker"

alt. 1 A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical. 2 A long, hard-to-pronounce word. n. 1 A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical. 2 A long, hard-to-pronounce word.

1. n. a large round hard candy

2. a word that is hard to pronounce

Jawbreaker may refer to:

• Gobstopper or jawbreaker, a hard candy with multiple layers
• Jawbreaker (band), an American rock band
• Jawbreaker (film), a 1999 film starring Rose McGowan
• Jawbreaker (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers universes
• Jawbreaker (TV series), a Canadian talk show hosted by Brad Fraser
• Jawbreaker (video game), a 1981 Pac-Man clone
• Jawbreaker (Windows Mobile game), a 2003 video game
• Jawbreaker: The attack on bin Laden and al-Qaeda, a book by Gary Berntsen
• "Jawbreaker", a song by The Dead Weather from Sea of Cowards
• "Jawbreaker", a song by Judas Priest from Defenders of the Faith
• Jawbreaker, a type of professional wrestling throw

Jawbreaker was an American punk rock band active from 1986 to 1996. The band is considered one of the influential acts of the 1990s emo movement. Lead vocalist and guitarist Blake Schwarzenbach, bassist Chris Bauermeister, and drummer Adam Pfahler formed the band while students at New York University, later relocating to Los Angeles where they released their debut album Unfun (1990) through independent record label Shredder Records. Relocating again to San Francisco the following year, they released 1992's Bivouac through the Tupelo Recording Company and The Communion Label. Schwarzenbach's charisma and personal, frustrated lyrics helped to establish him as a cult idol, even as he underwent surgery to remove painful and voice-threatening polyps from his throat. Jawbreaker toured with Nirvana in 1993 and released 24 Hour Revenge Therapy in 1994, attracting the attention of major labels. They signed a $1 million contract with DGC Records and released 1995's Dear You, but the album's polished production and smooth vocals resulted in a significant backlash from the band's core audience. Internal tensions led to Jawbreaker's dissolution in 1996.

Following the breakup, the members of Jawbreaker were active in other projects including Jets to Brazil and Whysall Lane. Pfahler continued to issue previously-recorded Jawbreaker material through his Blackball Records label, and public interest in the band continued due in part to nationally-charting pop punk and emo acts openly indebted to Jawbreaker's sound. In 2004, Pfahler licensed the out-of-print Dear You from DGC's parent company Geffen Records and re-released it to positive response. He has since issued a remastered version of Unfun, and plans to remaster the rest of the band's catalog.

Jawbreaker is a 1999 American black comedy film written and directed by Darren Stein. The film stars Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer as girls in an exclusive clique in their high school. Charlotte Ayanna has a non-speaking cameo role as a murdered prom queen. The film was inspired by the film Heathers, and is often compared to it, particularly the plot involving a popular female clique, and the accidental murder of one of its members. Of his concept for the film, Stein has stated "The jawbreaker just came to represent the duality of the poppy sweetness of the girls, of high school and of youth, versus the whole idea that this thing could break your jaw". The film was released on February 19, 1999 and was a critical and financial failure, though it has come to gain a cult following. Similarities have been drawn between Jawbreaker and the 2004 film Mean Girls.

Jawbreaker is a video game programmed by John Harris and released in 1981 for the Atari 400/800 by On-line Systems.

Originally intended to be a fairly straight Pac-Man clone, Jawbreaker emerged as a relatively inventive version with unique gameplay. It was widely lauded by reviewers, and became a major seller for Sierra Online. The story of its creation forms a portion of Steven Levy's book, Hackers.

Jawbreaker is a Canadian English language television talk show hosted by Brad Fraser. The program features guests who discuss and debate varying topics and issues predominantly relating to the LGBT community. Jawbreaker premiered on October 11, 2002 at 10:00 p.m. EST on the Canadian specialty channel PrideVision TV, now called OUTtv.

Jawbreaker is a port of SameGame for the Pocket PC bundled with the Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 operating system for PDAs. The operating system, and thus the game, was officially released on April 7, 2003. The game itself was developed by oopdreams software, Inc. Jawbreaker is officially listed as one of the "Core Applications" of the Windows Mobile software family, in a paper released by Microsoft. In Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6.0 it is called Bubble Breaker. The original non-bundled version of the game is available from the developer itself as Bubblets.