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one-throat

one-throat verb: to eat quickly and with minimal chewing, especially if to the point of swallowing food whole.

Verb

one-throat (third-person singular simple present one-throats, present participle one-throating, simple past and past participle one-throated)

  1. (slang, transitive) To eat quickly and with minimal chewing, especially if to the point of swallowing food whole.
    • I one-throated a chicken tender and it really got me.2016 April 7, Sal Vulcano, “Statue of Limitations” (4:20 from the start), in Impractical Jokers, season 5, episode 8, spoken by Joe Gatto
    • HAHA she completely ignored him one throating that sandwich 😂2016 October 19, Alexa_Cosentino, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022

Examples of one-throat in a sentence

  • I was cleaning the gunk from under my toenails and was overcome by the urge to scream FAKE NEWS while one-throating a cheeseburger in bed.2018 December 6, witchface13, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
  • I want to say me, but I would get super distracted watching the Foss one-throat a 12-pack of éclairs and take the L #31Gifts2018 December 6, iswingabitmore, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:
  • The dude one-throating an eclair like a duck should be a hint.2022 March 31, VodkaBarf, “what a - way to have your meal”, in Reddit, StupidFood, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022:

Forms of one-throat

third-person singular presentone-throats
present participleone-throating
past participleone-throated
pastone-throated
alternative formone throat

Origin of one-throat

Coined in a 2016 episode of Impractical Jokers.

Questions about one-throat

What does one-throat mean?
One-throat means to eat quickly and with minimal chewing, especially if to the point of swallowing food whole.
How do you use one-throat in a sentence?
I was cleaning the gunk from under my toenails and was overcome by the urge to scream FAKE NEWS while one-throating a cheeseburger in bed.
What part of speech is one-throat?
One-throat is a verb.
What is the past tense of one-throat?
The past tense of one-throat is one-throated.

Words near one-throat in the dictionary

  1. one-tenth
  2. one-thingism
  3. one-third
  4. one-thousander
  5. one-thousanders
  6. one-throat
  7. one-throated
  8. one-throating
  9. one-throats
  10. one-time
  11. one-time pad

Source and license

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