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Jabs
- noun -
- a quick short straight punch
- a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow); "he warned me with a jab with his finger"; "he made a thrusting motion with his fist"
- stab or pierce; "he jabbed the piece of meat with his pocket knife"
- strike or punch with quick and short blows
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"
Jags
- noun - a bout of drinking or drug taking
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
- a sharp projection on an edge or surface; "he clutched a jag of the rock"
- a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
- cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
Jaks
- noun - immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted
Jams
- noun - a dense crowd of people
- block passage through; "obstruct the path"
- crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked"
- crush or bruise; "jam a toe"
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
- get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed"
- informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"
- preserve of crushed fruit
- press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
- push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor"
Jars
- noun - a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers"
- a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles
- affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience"
- be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"
- shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game"
- the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer"
Jaws
- noun - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"
- holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- talk incessantly and tiresomely
- talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
- the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
Jays
- noun - crested largely blue bird
- United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829)
Jess
- - A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon.
Jets
- noun - a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- an artificially produced flow of water
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building"
- street names for ketamine
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
Jibs
- noun - any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
- refuse to comply
- shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly"