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[ guht -er ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈgʌt ər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rainwater.
any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.
a furrow or channel made by running water.
Bowling . a sunken channel extending along each side of a bowling lane, to catch balls that stray over the edge.
the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter.
the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used without object) to flow in streams.
(of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.
(of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.
to form gutters, as water does.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used with object) to make gutters in; channel.
to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house.
Origin of gutter First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English gutter, goter, from Old French go(u)tiere, equivalent to goutte “drop” + -iere, feminine of -ier; see origin at gout,-er2
OTHER WORDS FROM gutter gut·ter·like, adjective Words nearby gutter guttat., guttate, guttatim, guttation, gutted, gutter , gutter ball, gutter fracture, guttering, gutter press, guttersnipe
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Example sentences from the Web for gutter He piles the trash into the can and stands in the gutter , waiting for the light to change.
Stanley Booth on the Life and Hard Times of Blues Genius Furry Lewis | Stanley Booth| June 7, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Speaking with The Tottenville Review, Foy calls his school of writing “gutter opera.”
Novelist D. Foy Dubs His Debut ‘Gutter Opera’ And Who Are We To Argue? | J.T. Price| May 12, 2014| DAILY BEAST
But all publications seem to go to the gutter when it comes to Lewinsky.
Stop Slut-Shaming Monica Lewinsky! | Emily Shire| May 7, 2014| DAILY BEAST
But I reserve the distinction for gutter dwelling and otherwise abhorrent behavior to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Lack of Civility is Destroying Washington D.C. | Ron Christie| April 11, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Davis begins the film, punched by an aggressor into the gutter and ends it the same way.
Why No Oscar Love For 'Inside Llewyn Davis'? | Tim Teeman| January 20, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Marat's bust had been thrown into the gutter and the Jacobin clubs closed.
The Red City | S. Weir Mitchell
Looking about her, she perceived a gutter which seemed even lovelier than the one she had followed.
Seventeen | Booth Tarkington
Catching him by the arm, our hero hurled him backward with such force that he fell flat in the gutter .
The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview | Ralph Bonehill
As he walked home, he dug his nails wrathfully into the envelope of Valentines, and then suddenly he saw a drain in the gutter .
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie
Gutter children are an impossibility in a place where there are no gutter s for their innocent delectation.
Hygeia, a City of Health | Benjamin Ward Richardson
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British Dictionary definitions for gutter noun a channel along the eaves or on the roof of a building, used to collect and carry away rainwater
a channel running along the kerb or the centre of a road to collect and carry away rainwater
a trench running beside a canal lined with clay puddle
either of the two channels running parallel to a tenpin bowling lane
printing the space between two pages in a forme the white space between the facing pages of an open book the space between two columns of type the space left between stamps on a sheet in order to separate them
surfing a dangerous deep channel formed by currents and waves
Australian (in gold-mining) the channel of a former watercourse that is now a vein of gold
the gutter a poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment
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(intr) to flow in a stream or rivulet
(intr) (of a candle) to melt away by the wax forming channels and running down in drops
(intr) (of a flame) to flicker and be about to go out
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Derived forms of gutter gutter-like , adjective Word Origin for gutter C13: from Anglo-French goutiere, from Old French goute a drop, from Latin gutta
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Words related to gutter eaves, duct, tube, dike, pipe, sewer, culvert, conduit, funnel, drain, gully, spout, trench, sluice, trough, moat, channel, watercourse, runnel, fosse