Definition of "locked-jaw" []

• See lockjaw. (noun)

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• "Meanwhile, the ever locked-jaw pitbull, Norman Baker MP has been asking questions of the House of Commons Commission, which the Speaker Chairs and where, if the taxpayer was paying his Carter Ruck bill would be."
• "This seasonable retort cured the garrulity of the patient, and gave him a locked-jaw till the stage arrived at the Royal Exchange."
• "He has had it in his head for a good while to write a 'Life of Cromwell,' and has been sitting for months back in a mess of great dingy folios, the very look of which is like to give me locked-jaw."