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jaw-jaw

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jaw-jaw /ˈdʒɔːdʒɔː / informal
noun [mass noun] talking, especially lengthy and pointless discussion:
a week of financial jaw-jaw.
verb talk, especially at length:
to jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century (rare before the 1950s): reduplication of jaw.