Speakur

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going for the jugular vein

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables
go-ing -for the jugu-lar vein
IPA
41
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
4
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of go for the jugular vein

Questions

What does going for the jugular vein mean?
present participle and gerund of go for the jugular vein

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