gullet

Definition of gulletnext
as in mouth
the tube that leads from the mouth through the throat to the stomach food traveling down the gullet

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Recent Examples of gullet Cut away lungs, reaching up into the neck as far as possible to sever gullet and windpipe. Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025 What excites me, after a decade and change of writing virtually the same review for every superhero film that was shoved down our gullets, is my suspicion that these movies will at least have the potential to suck in different and sometimes wildly unexpected ways. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025 The coverage of him has often been over the top and forced down the gullets of sports fans. Zach Harper, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024 In one example, an individual bird was decapitated and had a corncob placed in its gullet. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gullet
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Noun
  • Manscaped’s ‘Hair Ballad’ Several ads trafficked in revulsion as an attention-getter, none more so than this one for a body shaver featuring various clumps of removed body hair singing with their little hairy mouths.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Then, while breathing through your mouth, allow the solution to flow in and drain out the opposite nostril before repeating on the other side.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
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  • According to this idea, although these objects may look like supersize red stars, their shine is powered not by standard stellar thermonuclear fusion but rather by the relentless funneling of burning-hot plasma into the insatiable maw of a snowballing black hole.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Journalists, screenwriters, even novelists and poets, could now be replaced by the maw of ineffable code.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
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  • Our comparatively small jaws opened the floodgates to all sorts of other issues, Ungar adds, including the sleep apnea epidemic, which occurs when our tongues don’t have enough room to wiggle around in our mouths.
    Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Its gift shop and offices are destroyed and the trademark jaws entrance is damaged (and later restored).
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026

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“Gullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullet. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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