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gullet
[ guhl-it ]
noun
- the esophagus.
- the throat or pharynx.
- a channel for water.
- a gully or ravine.
- a preparatory cut in an excavation.
- a concavity between two sawteeth, joining them at their bases.
verb (used with object)
- to form a concavity at the base of (a sawtooth).
gullet
/ ˈɡʌɪ /
noun
- a less formal name for the oesophagus oesophageal
- the throat or pharynx
- mining quarrying a preliminary cut in excavating, wide enough to take the vehicle that removes the earth
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gullet1
Example Sentences
As this pink delicacy was halfway down my gullet, you screamed out, “Tidbit, that’s the prop! We still need to shoot a closeup from another angle.”
Mobula rays feed by swimming open-mouthed through plankton-rich regions of the ocean and filtering plankton particles into their gullet as water streams into their mouths and out through their gills.
A pre-tournament trip to Hong Kong had included an infamous night out with bottles of spirits being poured down players' gullets while they reclined in in a dentist chair.
Visitors slid down the pole in “The Fire Cat,” slithered into the gullet of the boa constrictor in “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and lounged in a faux bubble bath in “Harry the Dirty Dog.”
After days of agony, success is a room of people glancing at Lizzy’s work while stuffing their gullets with cheese.
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