JUGULAR


Meaning of JUGULAR in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒʌgjʊlə(r) ]

( jugulars)

1.

A jugular or jugular vein is one of the three important veins in your neck that carry blood from your head back to your heart.

N-COUNT

2.

If you say that someone went for the jugular , you mean that they strongly attacked another person’s weakest points in order to harm them. ( INFORMAL )

Mr Black went for the jugular, asking intimate sexual questions.

PHRASE : V inflects

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