deep throat

noun, often capitalized D&T

Definition of deep throat

: an informant who divulges damaging information under cover of anonymity

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an accountant who had turned deep throat, he was the first to leak the information that the company had been cooking its books for years

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The first known use of deep throat was in 1973

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