GUTTER


Meaning of GUTTER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ gʌtə(r) ]

( gutters)

1.

The gutter is the edge of a road next to the pavement, where rain water collects and flows away.

It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city’s vast sewerage system.

N-COUNT : usu the N

2.

A gutter is a plastic or metal channel fixed to the lower edge of the roof of a building, which rain water drains into.

Did you fix the gutter?

N-COUNT

3.

If someone is in the gutter , they are very poor and live in a very bad way.

Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful.

N-SING : the N

4.

see also gutter press

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