DCHP-3

jaw

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

credit (presumably because the jawbone had to be exercised in speaking to win over the creditor).

See: jawbone

Quotations

1962
In western parlance . . . credit is "jawbone" sometimes abbreviated into "jaw".