Jaws or Jaw can refer to:

Anatomy

Jaw The jaws are a pair of opposable articulated structures at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food. The term ''jaws'' is also broadly applied to the whole of the structures constituting the vault of the mouth ...

, an opposable articulated structure at the entrance of the mouth **

Mandible In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin ''mandibula'', 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lowerand typically more mobilecomponent of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla). The jawbone i ...

, the lower jaw

Arts, entertainment, and media

Jaws (James Bond) Jaws is a fictional character in the ''James Bond'' franchise. He appears in the films '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977) and '' Moonraker'' (1979), played by Richard Kiel. Depicted as a henchman in the service of various villains, the character i ...

, a character in ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' and ''Moonraker'' * ''Jaws'' (novel), a novel by Peter Benchley *

Jaws (ride) ''Jaws'' is an amusement ride attraction based on the ''Jaws'' film series and is located at Universal Studios Japan. It originally opened at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando in 1990, and another installation later opened at Universal Studi ...

, a theme park attraction based on the film series * ''Jaws'' (video game), a 1987 NES video game, based on the film * Shark Jaws, a 1975 Arcade Game, made by Atari * "Jaws", ''The Keith & Paddy Picture Show'' season 1, episode 4 (2017)

Films

* ''Jaws'' (franchise) ** ''Jaws'' (film), a 1975 American film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the novel by Peter Benchley **''

Jaws 2 ''Jaws 2'' is a 1978 American horror thriller film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and co-written by Carl Gottlieb. It is the sequel to Steven Spielberg's '' Jaws'' (1975), and the second installment in the ''Jaws'' franchise. The film stars Roy ...

'', a 1978 American film **''

Jaws 3-D ''Jaws 3-D'' (titled ''Jaws III'' in its 2-D form) is a 1983 American horror film directed by Joe Alves and starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale and Louis Gossett Jr. As the second sequel to Steven Spielberg's '' Jaws' ...

'', 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

BAE173 BAE173 () is a South Korean boy band formed and managed by PocketDol Studio. The group debuted on November 19, 2020, with their first EP ''Intersection: Spark''. The group currently consists of eight members: J-Min, Hangyul, Yoojun, Muzin, Jun ...

from ''Intersection: Blaze'' * "Jaws", a song by Lights from ''Pep'' * "Jaws", a song by Lemon Demon from the EP ''

Nature Tapes ''Nature Tapes'' is the third EP by Lemon Demon, a musical project created by American musician Neil Cicierega. It was independently released on March 24, 2014, though all songs on its tracklist were released prior as singles. It later had physi ...

People

Jaw (Ćehu′pa) Jaw/Ćehu'pa, also known as His Fight/Oki'cize-ta'wa, was a Hunkpapa (Húŋkpapȟa) Lakota Winter count keeper and Ledger art artist Commonly known as Jaw (Ćehu'pa), a name which he allegedly received from a white brother-in-law, was born so ...

(c. 1850–1924), Hunkpapa Lakota winter count keeper and ledger art artist *

Jaw Shaw-kong Jaw Shaw-kong (; born 6 May 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, media personality and entrepreneur. Jaw served a single term on the Taipei City Council before being elected to the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 1991 and 1993 to 1994. In 1993, h ...

, Taiwanese media personality and politician *

Aaron Homoki Aaron Homoki (; born February 2, 1990), also known as Jaws, is an American professional Skateboarding, skateboarder and was featured in the ''True Blue Retrospect'' video part. He is from Phoenix, Arizona. He is famous for his ability to withsta ...

, American professional skateboarder *

Ron Jaworski Ronald Vincent Jaworski (born March 23, 1951), nicknamed "Jaws", is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He played college football for the Youngstown State Pengui ...

, American football quarterback *

Joe Jordan (footballer) Joseph Jordan (born 15 December 1951) is a Scottish internationalist football ex-player, manager and coach. A forward, Jordan started his senior football career with Greenock Morton. With Leeds United he won the 1973–74 Football League Fi ...

, Scottish footballer and coach *

Colin Lloyd Colin Edward Lloyd (born 7 August 1973), nicknamed Jaws, is an English former professional darts player. He formerly competed in Professional Darts Corporation events, where he was ranked world number one from April 2005 to January 2007 (except ...

, English darts player *

Darrell Waltrip Darrell Lee Waltrip (born February 5, 1947) is an American motorsports Color analyst, analyst, author as well as a former national television broadcaster and stock car driver. He raced from 1972 to 2000 in the NASCAR Cup Series (known as the NAS ...

, American race car driver

Computing

JAWS (screen reader) Job Access With Speech (JAWS) is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a refreshable Braille display. JAWS is prod ...

, for blind and vision-impaired computer users *

JAWS Scripting Language Job Access With Speech (JAWS) is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows that allows blind and visually impaired users to read the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a refreshable Braille display. JAWS is prod ...

, a proprietary programming language *

Java Web Start In computing, Java Web Start (also known as JavaWS, javaws or JAWS) is a deprecated framework developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) that allows users to start application software for the Java Platform directly from the Internet using a web b ...

or JAWS, a system for launching Java applications outside of a web browser

Other uses

Jaws (beach) Peʻahi ( ; ) is a place on the north shore of the island of Maui in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has lent its name to a big wave surfing break, also known as Jaws. Location Pe'ahi (Jaws) surf break is roughly three miles east of Paia, Hawaii, ...

, a big-wave surfing area in Hawaii *

Japan Anthropology Workshop Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) is an international academic association concerned with furthering the field of anthropology of Japan. JAWS holds major conferences – some in conjunction with the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJ ...

, abbreviated JAWS *

Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score The Jaffe Wins Above Replacement Score, commonly abbreviated JAWS, is a sabermetric baseball statistic developed to evaluate the strength of a player's career and merit for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Created by averaging a player's ...

(JAWS), a sabermetric tool for evaluating a baseball player's Hall of Fame worthiness