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jugular
[ juhg-yuh-ler, joo-gyuh- ]
adjective
- Anatomy.
- of or relating to the throat or neck.
- noting or pertaining to any of certain large veins of the neck, especially one external jugular vein collecting blood from the superficial parts of the head or one internal jugular vein collecting blood from within the skull.
- (of a fish) having the pelvic fins at the throat, before the pectoral fins.
noun
- Anatomy. a jugular vein.
jugular
/ ˈdʒʌɡjʊlə /
adjective
- of, relating to, or situated near the throat or neck
- of, having, or denoting pelvic fins situated in front of the pectoral fins
a jugular fish
noun
- short for jugular vein
- go for the jugularto make a savage and destructive attack on an enemy's weakest point
Other Words From
- inter·jugu·lar adjective
- post·jugu·lar adjective
- sub·jugu·lar adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of jugular1
Idioms and Phrases
- go for the jugular, to attack a vital and vulnerable trait, feature, element, etc., in an attempt to overcome somebody or something swiftly and totally:
The defense attorney went right for the jugular by attempting to destroy the witness's credibility.
More idioms and phrases containing jugular
see go for , def. 4.Example Sentences
The doctor was cutting my neck open to put a line into my jugular to try to get blood into me fast enough to save me.
The new study went straight for that previously untenable jugular.
Both have clear strengths, clear weaknesses, and campaigns that are not afraid to go for the jugular.
These early rehearsal scenes see Simmons go for the jugular, verbally undressing his students with rapacious license.
The camera turns away before heads are smashed; bloodthirsty baboons snarl but are never seen ripping into a jugular.
Or when in the midst of an uncomfortably aggressive tryst, Franklin forced Tara to take a bite out of his jugular.
Not infrequently, when their encyclopedic lack of knowledge is gently pointed out, they go for the reproductive jugular.
Deeper and deeper the crooked teeth dug; and then with a burst of bright blood, they pierced the jugular vein itself.
Kill by cutting the jugular vein with a sharp pen-knife, just under the sides of the head, and hang them up to bleed.
(ii) If there be thrombosis of the bulb of the jugular vein.
He would tear Thoreau's jugular out if he had half a chance.
But Professor Huxley has kindly informed me that he has discovered a jugular fish in the Permian deposits.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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