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noun (2)

British

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The final push for freedom involved coiling their bodies to extract their head from the gill. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024 Share [Findings] Juvenile Japanese eels can escape from the stomachs of dark sleepers by pushing their tails back through the fish’s esophagus and out its gills. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 Envelopes stuffed to the gills with records of all our purchases over the last nine months. Allbusiness, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024 Jerry/Garry Gergich actor Jim O'Heir's new book Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation is stuffed to the gills with intriguing, revealing, sometimes downright shocking facts about the making of the beloved NBC sitcom. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gill 

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“Gill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gill. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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