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call one's jaw

West, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See: jawbone

Quotations

1885

His ready money gone he has nothing to live on but "jawbone" i.e. credit, and "to call his jaw," i.e. live on credit, till he has got further employment and more wages.