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Jaws

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Jaws or Jaw may refer to:

Anatomy

  • Jaw, an opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Jaws (James Bond), a character in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker
  • Jaws (novel), a novel by Peter Benchley
  • Jaws (ride), a theme park attraction based on the film series
  • Jaws (video game), a 1987 NES video game, based on the film

Films

  • Jaws (franchise)
    • Jaws (film), a 1975 American film based on the novel
    • Jaws 2, a 1978 American film
    • Jaws 3-D, a 1983 American film
    • Jaws: The Revenge, a 1987 American film

Music

  • Jaws (soundtrack)
  • Jaws (album), a 1958 album by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
  • JAWS (band), an English surf pop/alternative rock band from Birmingham
  • Jaws, a song by Lemon Demon from the EP Nature Tapes

People

  • Jaw (Ćehu′pa) (c. 1850–1924), Hunkpapa Lakota winter count keeper and ledger art artist
  • Jaw Shaw-kong, Taiwanese media personality and politician
  • Aaron Homoki, American professional skateboarder
  • Ron Jaworski, American football quarterback
  • Joe Jordan (footballer), Scottish footballer and coach
  • Colin Lloyd, English darts player
  • Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver

Computing

  • JAWS (screen reader), for blind and vision-impaired computer users
  • JAWS Scripting Language, a proprietary programming language
  • Java Web Start or JAWS, a system for launching Java applications outside of a web browser

Other uses

  • Jaws (beach), a big-wave surfing area in Hawaii
  • JAWS (conference), Japan Anthropology Workshop
  • Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score (JAWS), a sabermetric tool for evaluating a baseball player's Hall of Fame worthiness

See also

  • Grab (tool), a pair of mechanical jaws
  • Hydraulic rescue tools, of which one brand is known as the "Jaws of Life"
  • Jaww, a village in Bahrain
  • Open jaw, or open-jaw, ticket, an airline return ticket whose destination and origin differ
  • All pages with titles containing Jaw
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