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candy engineered like a planet, layered in dares, daring your molars to a duel
means A jawbreaker is a large, very hard round candy built in layers that you slowly suck (rather than chew) until it dissolves — or, separately, a word so long and tangled it's hard to pronounce.
from A transparent English compound: jaw (the bone that does your chewing, from Old English) plus breaker (one who breaks). The candy sense is the literal joke — a sweet so rock-hard it threatens to break your jaw — and the same exaggeration gives us the older figurative sense of a tongue-twisting, unpronounceable word that 'breaks the jaw' to say.
- layered build
- made by slowly coating a seed in rotating drums
- named honestly
- the name is a warning, not a metaphor
- slow physics
- some take weeks to fully dissolve
- layer reveal
- colors shift as you grind through each shell
- never bite
- dentists rank them among top tooth-cracking suspects
jawbreaker candy — spherical hard candy that grew in popularity in the 1970s, still sold globally with layers revealed as you suck it
jawbreaker dc comics — villain character in dc universe with superhuman strength and ability to crush objects, first appeared in 1998
jawbreaker 1999 film — dark comedy movie directed by allan moyle about high school girls in los angeles, starring rose mcgowan