gorge

IPA: gˈɔrdʒ

noun

  • (archaic) The front aspect of the neck; the outside of the throat.
  • (archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.
  • Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
  • (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
  • (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
  • (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
  • (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
  • (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
  • (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
  • An act of gorging.
  • A male given name

verb

  • (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [+ on (object)]
  • (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
  • (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
  • (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.

adjective

  • (slang) Gorgeous.
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