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 In one example, an individual bird was decapitated and had a corncob placed in its gullet. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 27 Nov. 2024 The majestic bird made Central Park an impromptu restaurant recently, settling in a grassy area to dine on its latest catch, which happened to be the rat stuffed in its gullet. Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024 Eventually, a freaky, spider-like facehugger will hatch from an egg and, true to its name, latch onto a host’s face and force an embryo down their unwilling gullets. Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024 Your family of otters may already be half-digested in a crocodile’s gullet, but what about writing a horror movie for kids? Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gullet
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Noun
  • The kind guard in the lobby and my mother’s terrible, open mouth.
    Rebecca Chace July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
  • Vásquez Lasso hit Montano in the mouth area, and Montano shot the officer in the head, arm and leg as children and others in a nearby playground took cover.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Plus that stuff would eventually get devoured by the maw too since AI models could just grab it to train on.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
  • Since February, Donald Trump and Linda McMahon have blocked these borrowers' path out of default and are now feeding them into the maw of the government debt collection machine.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025

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“Gullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gullet. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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