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plural jawbreakers
A large, extremely hard, boiled candy, typically spherical. quotations examples
If somebody microwaves a large jawbreaker and nibbles on the outside, a crack can cause molten candy to burst out and cause painful burns. Exploding jawbreakers have been documented on television news and in police reports.
2005, Keith Zimmerman, MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time, Simon and Schuster
A long, hard-to-pronounce word. examples
(boxing, slang) A hard blow to the side of the face. quotations
Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]
1987, James Clarke, Like it was: The Star, 100 Years in Johannesburg, page 9