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- adjective informal
Rigidly humourless .
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Examples
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Garda Barrett tried to restrain him and Wallace 'lockjawed' his teeth onto the left forearm of Garda Collins.
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Ethan had thick blond hair and a cute upturned nose that belied a long ancestry of lockjawed, God-fearing, WASP bankers.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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Ethan had thick blond hair and a cute upturned nose that belied a long ancestry of lockjawed, God-fearing, WASP bankers.
Famous Todd Strasser 2011
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She's the flower child of aging flower children who speed-marries Greg, a lockjawed WASP (Thomas Gibson) who's somehow also her soulmate.
Faces Of The Fall 2008
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She opened his nightstand drawer and fingered the silky tassel of a bookmark, the metal teeth of a lockjawed stapler.
Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007
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You will most likely be facing a fight on two fronts: low, clear water and lockjawed bass.
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He hides his strongest feelings, is stoic about pain, and limits his mirth to a lockjawed grin.
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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He hides his strongest feelings, is stoic about pain, and limits his mirth to a lockjawed grin.
Harbinger DAVID MACK 2005
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And as he knew his Rigelians, he doubted the lockjawed Papaver had talked.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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And as he knew his Rigelians, he doubted the lockjawed Papaver had talked.
CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004
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