gutter
guh ter
- n a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- n misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
his career was in the gutter - n a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
- n a tool for gutting fish
- v burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground - v flow in small streams
Tears guttered down her face - v wear or cut gutters into
The heavy rain guttered the soil - v provide with gutters
gutter the buildings
- His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter.
- Return to Peyton Place (20th Century-Fox) is a recrawl of the New England gutters so noisomely celebrated by Author Grace Metalious in Peyton Place.
- After treatment for his ailing sinuses, Joe McCarthy strode out of Bethesda Naval Medical Center one day last week and immediately began splashing around in the political gutter.