A jawbreaker is a round candy, multi-layered like a pearl.
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Jawbreaker
Synonyms for "jawbreaker" (9 found)
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Dutch
1 entries- toverbal noun (hard candy)
French
2 entries- boule de mammouth noun (hard candy)
- casse-gueule noun (hard candy)
Romanian
1 entries- sfarmă-fălci noun (hard candy)
Sample sentences
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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.
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The word “callipygous” is something of a jawbreaker.
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Bendoff went pluckily forward, but only to receive a jawbreaker from Couper's left, […]
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