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gullet

[guhl-it] / ˈgʌl ɪt /
NOUN
neck
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Instead of slamming directly into a flat barrier, particles move along the surface and are guided onward toward the gullet.

From Science Daily Dec. 22, 2025

Oesophageal cancer is a cancer that's found anywhere in the oesophagus, sometimes called the gullet or food pipe, which connects your mouth to your stomach.

From BBC Oct. 19, 2023

The birds swallowed the franks whole, straight down the gullet.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2022

There’s even an Easter egg homage to a scene in the 1962 original, in which Kong jams a tree trunk down Godzilla’s gullet.

From New York Times Mar. 30, 2021

“Then pour some water down your gullet and let’s get hopping.”

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner




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