as in informant
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
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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Recent Examples of deep throat
From Wednesday, all air crew arriving in city must provide deep throat saliva samples, by spitting into a cup.
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Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 8 July 2020
The changes follow the announcement earlier this week that crew members would be required to submit deep throat saliva samples at Hong Kong International Airport.
—Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 July 2020
The airlines dropped flights to the city after Hong Kong’s health authority mandated new deep throat testing and quarantine rules for anyone flying there, including possible mandatory hospitalization for anyone that tests positive for COVID-19.
—Dallas News, 9 July 2020
Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 8 July 2020
The changes follow the announcement earlier this week that crew members would be required to submit deep throat saliva samples at Hong Kong International Airport.
—Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 July 2020
The airlines dropped flights to the city after Hong Kong’s health authority mandated new deep throat testing and quarantine rules for anyone flying there, including possible mandatory hospitalization for anyone that tests positive for COVID-19.
—Dallas News, 9 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deep throat
Noun
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Moreland's plan failed as Pedigo became a confidential informant for the FBI, adding to the federal government's case for obstruction of justice and witness tampering.—
Hadley Hitson,
The Tennessean,
17 July 2025
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Nationwide, there have been 256 exonerations tied to the use of jailhouse informants, according to the National Registry of Exonerations.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
10 July 2025
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Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments.—
Joshua Rovner,
The Conversation,
2 July 2025
Noun
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But as Malik Rahim puts it, New Orleans was just the canary in the American coal mine.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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But the small-cap Russell 2000, the canary in the coal mine, and the old economy industrials, the DJIA, appear to be singing from a different hymn book.—
Robert Barone,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Russo turned stool pigeon within a month of his November 2017 arrest for selling a kilo of cocaine to an undercover agent.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
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They are barred from using certain language during debates including git, guttersnipe, swine and stool pigeon.—
Max Colchester,
WSJ,
3 Jan. 2019
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“Deep throat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep%20throat. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.
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