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View synonyms for lockjaw

lockjaw

[ lok-jaw ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.


lockjaw

/ ˈlɒkˌdʒɔː /

noun

  1. pathol a nontechnical name for trismus tetanus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lockjaw1

First recorded in 1795–1805; lock 1 + jaw 1
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Example Sentences

If someone tells you “I don’t like eating MSG because I get headaches” or “I get lockjaw” or whatever symptoms they have, then don’t say they are racist or imagining it.

Stewart knew that taking on “Spencer” would be a challenge, and in the days leading up to the shoot, she even developed lockjaw as she ceaselessly practiced her British accent.

His voice was nasal, garrulous, W. C. Fields with a bad case of Long Island lockjaw.

“You want lockjaw or typhoid or a combination?”

It was six months after my best friend, Bluford Jackson, got firecrackers for Christmas and burned his hand on one and died of lockjaw ten days later.

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