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99%4Exact Match!
noun

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

verb

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

55%3Mandible or maxilla
noun

• the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth

• the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth

• holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object

verb

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• talk incessantly and tiresomely

• chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth

• censure severely or angrily

42%10 Having a mandible that is more prominent than the maxilla
adjective

• having a projecting lower jaw

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New York Times27 Jan 1991 Down 99
New York Times13 Jan 1978 Down 47
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