slack-jaw

slack-jaw
 n.β€” Β«That little prelude of pidgin Shakespeare has surely shooed the slack-jaws to the comics pages, so now let’s howl with indignation, you and me, at the horror of summer reality TV.Β» β€”β€œReal losers!” by Jonathan Storm Philadelphia Inquirer (Pa.) Aug. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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