gutter
- noun
- /ˈɡʌtər/
- NSFW
- The cleaters and gutters, we got a deal on.
Examples
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That there's the champion hog-gutter of this camp.
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The term "gutter language" is, for lack of a better word, just vulgar.
Blog text (4) -
MAN: Hold on to that gutter!
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Your gutter language is not acceptable and is way out of bounds.
Blog text (4) -
Gutter scoop or garden trowel
Blog text (19) -
You can easily hire the gutter punks down in Marseille to steal what needs stealing, but if you want it done right...
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The candles, squat affairs in ugly cups, gutter down to hot pools and burn out.
Fiction book (1995) -
I've seen them shoveling their guts back into their tunics out of the gutter and I'll see you, Murphy.
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The machine had been washed by small boys from Monterrey to Oaxaca—sometimes with bare hands and gutter water.
Fiction book (1995) -
He used the gutter to clean the fish he caught in the lake.
Synonyms
A person or machine that removes the internal organs of an animal
Compounds
- Offensive
Newspapers or magazines that print scandal stories and invade people's privacy to sell more copies
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gutter here is simply built from gut plus -er, meaning a tool or thing that removes the gut. So a gutter is the knife or tool used for gutting fish.