as in talks
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
now that he's retired, he's got all afternoon for a jaw with his friends at the senior center
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1
as in scolds
to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings
you don't have to jaw me to death just because I bite my nails
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2
as in chats
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
just a group of girls sitting around the locker room and jawing about the usual stuff
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaws
Noun
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There was a lot of chatter about taxes and changes to the tax system for colleges.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025 -
Both players are near the top of their respective positions, but there was a lot of chatter regarding Fitzpatrick.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 July 2025
Noun
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Each monthly box includes three recipe guides, skill lessons, a kitchen tool, a kitchen project, an apron patch, table talk cards, and a grocery list.—
Jessica Booth,
Parents,
16 Dec. 2024
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Almost everything about Thanksgiving, from travel to table talk about politics, has the potential to become fraught.—
Kendra Nordin Beato,
The Christian Science Monitor,
26 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Lacey remembers the conversation, which came just after exchanging small talk with her doctor, who discussed having four kids at home.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
17 June 2025
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Surface-level small talk gets you nowhere and leaves no mark.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Noun
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In the face of this workaday jangle of strangeness and complexity, paranoia starts to seem like a perfectly rational response.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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The key organizer mutes the noise of key jangles and can keep keys in a tidy stack in a user’s preferred order.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The latest gab session was instead devoted to taking questions from the fans — which led to a surprising story about a rock & roll legend.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
18 May 2025
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And as the resident gossip expert, no one is more equipped to handle the trickiest aspects of gab, even when gossip just might be the villain of the story.—
Kelsey McKinney,
Rolling Stone,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But during his acceptance speech for the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, Jay-Z took the opportunity to throw some chin music at the Recording Academy.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
5 Feb. 2024
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And many of our plants leaned into that chin music to less than stellar results.—
Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
7 Apr. 2023
Noun
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That first crack of thunder, the patter of rain on rooftops and the brief but glorious cooldown.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
4 July 2025
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Lucas was asked about Yoda’s particular patter, which often found the character doing away with typical sentence structure and essentially delivering his heady insights and mighty koans backwards.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Jaws.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaws. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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