: having jaws
jawed fishes
—usually used in combinationsquare-jawed
a three-jawed chuck
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Indianapolis hosts the Combine every year, which means each February its downtown briefly becomes the world capital for strong-jawed men in athleisure who could be described as broad, brawny, buff, burly, built, boxy, or otherwise physically notable.
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Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
In a deliberately cheap-looking black-and-white faux-’50s horror movie, the comedy team of Tim & Eric (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) play nerdish mad scientists who capture and bring to their laboratory a dino-fish monster who looks like a chomping-jawed gill-man made of papier-mâché.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026
The group found an ally in Mark Glass, a square-jawed former Army Blackhawk helicopter pilot whom Governor Ron DeSantis had tapped to run Florida’s department of law enforcement, or FDLE, overseeing intelligence coordination and counterterrorism.
—Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
That said, some strong performers come bursting into the kitchen, including the two leads, Kelsey MacDonald, playing a demanding, triple-threat part first written for Sutton Foster, and Trey Plutnicki, every inch the strong-jawed Broadway bachelor.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
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Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
In a deliberately cheap-looking black-and-white faux-’50s horror movie, the comedy team of Tim & Eric (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) play nerdish mad scientists who capture and bring to their laboratory a dino-fish monster who looks like a chomping-jawed gill-man made of papier-mâché.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026
The group found an ally in Mark Glass, a square-jawed former Army Blackhawk helicopter pilot whom Governor Ron DeSantis had tapped to run Florida’s department of law enforcement, or FDLE, overseeing intelligence coordination and counterterrorism.
—Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026
That said, some strong performers come bursting into the kitchen, including the two leads, Kelsey MacDonald, playing a demanding, triple-threat part first written for Sutton Foster, and Trey Plutnicki, every inch the strong-jawed Broadway bachelor.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Jawed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jawed. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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jawed
adjective
: having jaws
jawed fishes
—usually used in combination
square-jawed
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