How to pronounce “jawbone”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (countable) The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.
• (countable) Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.
• (countable, singular or plural, music) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.
• (uncountable, slang, archaic) Credit.
• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive) To talk persistently in an attempt to persuade somebody to cooperate.
• (transitive) (especially of regulatory agencies) To try to persuade (someone) through implied threats of punitive action, such as tighter regulatory control.

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