glass jaw
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fighting vulnerability where one is easily knocked out via a single hard blow to the chin or jaw (due to lack of conditioning, insufficient training, or damage from past cerebral concussions).
noun
A vulnerability of that sort; a weak spot.
Example Sentences
- ""How was I to know that big ape had a glass jaw?""
- "Early in Ali's career, experts believed he had what's called a glass jaw—that he would fall after the first big punch. He was now proving that he could take a punch, but each punch chipped away at his health."
- "It is essential that a player be able to identify his glass jaw or his weak spot and learn to deal with it in actual competition."
- "But if Obama does have a glass jaw, if his candidacy is a bubble waiting to be pricked, a strong Republican nominee like McCain is precisely the guy to do it."
- "Does the frontrunner have a glass jaw? All year, Biden has led in the vast majority of national and early-state polls of Democratic voters."
- "That will to negate, to kick at society’s glass jaw and not call it a tantrum, changed when the romantic death wish became actual death, and Gunn had to see that beloved figure, dead on the kitchen floor, over and over again."