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View synonyms for iron-jawed
iron-jawed
[ ahy-ern-jawd ]
adjective
- having a jaw of or like iron:
an iron-jawed press; an iron-jawed fighter.
- fiercely determined:
an iron-jawed will.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of iron-jawed1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
I'm the old original iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansaw!
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Big Medicine was transformed into a cold-eyed, iron-jawed fighting machine.
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"Muddy gasoline," nodded Millbank tersely—an iron-jawed, over-groomed man of forty, with a florid face shaved blue.
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An iron-jawed fellow he is, with every muscle in his well-knit body to match.
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