"make someone's jaw drop" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make someone's jaw drop.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes someone's jaw drop [present, singular, third-person], making someone's jaw drop [participle, present], made someone's jaw drop [participle, past], made someone's jaw drop [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> someone's jaw drop}} make someone's jaw drop (third-person singular simple present makes someone's jaw drop, present participle making someone's jaw drop, simple past and past participle made someone's jaw drop)
  1. (idiomatic) To cause someone to be very surprised or alarmed. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: jaw-dropping, someone's jaw dropped
    Sense id: en-make_someone's_jaw_drop-en-verb-eQY7ztVe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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