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going for the jugular

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables
go-ing -for the jugu-lar
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of go for the jugular

Questions

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

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