gullet

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 There is a small gullet in his mouth, so Cookie can actually eat something the size of a small fist. Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023 Their introductions are carefully crafted WWE-grade nightmare fuel, announced as if each competitor is a god come down from the heavens to vacuum meat tubes down their gullets. Krista Stevens, Longreads, 1 Aug. 2023 Video shared by the Italian Coast Guard showed wreckage from the wooden gullet, a Turkish sailing boat, washed up onto the beach. Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2023 My gullet capers like a piccolo. Laura Kolbe, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for gullet 

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“Gullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullet. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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