underhung
Americanadjective
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Anatomy.
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(of the lower jaw) projecting beyond the upper jaw.
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having the lower jaw so projecting.
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resting on a track beneath instead of being overhung, as a sliding door.
adjective
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(of the lower jaw) projecting beyond the upper jaw; undershot
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(of a sliding door, etc) supported at its lower edge by a track or rail
Etymology
Origin of underhung
Example Sentences
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Means has a bullet head, small bright eyes, an ingratiating smile, a round chin underhung with a fat neck.
From Time Magazine Archive
His mouth was underhung, giving him a pugnacious and bad-tempered appearance.
From The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
He ate with considerable appetite and unconcealed relish, and as his jaw was underhung, he chummed and made the moustache wave like reeds in the swell of a steamer.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The underhung jaw of the prizefighter shot out.
From Steve Yeager by William MacLeod Raine
He had a square, full chin and an upper lip slightly underhung.
From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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