Definitions for gutters

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gutters gut·ter

Spelling: [guht-er]

IPA: /ˈgʌt ər/

Gutters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in gutters (egrsttu).

Definitions for gutters

noun

1. a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
2. a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rain water.
3. any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.
4. a furrow or channel made by running water.
5. Bowling. a sunken channel on each side of the alley from the line marking the limit of a fair delivery of the ball to the sunken area behind the pins.
6. the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.:
7. the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.

verb (used with object)

1. to make gutters in; channel.
2. to furnish with a gutter or gutters:

verb (used without object)

1. to flow in streams.
2. (of a candle) to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.
3. (of a lamp or candle flame) to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.
4. to form gutters, as water does.

Origin of gutters

1250-1300; Middle English gutter, goter Anglo-French goutiere, equivalent to goutte drop (see gout) + -iere, feminine of -ier -er²

Examples for gutters

You have begun life at the top of the tree, and you have chosen to fling your chances into the gutter.

They gutter highways, but oftenest let Low Ways gutter them.

Speaking with The Tottenville Review, Foy calls his school of writing “gutter opera.”

He piles the trash into the can and stands in the gutter, waiting for the light to change.

I can throw him in the gutter as easy as I could them young ones, and he knows it.

But I reserve the distinction for gutter dwelling and otherwise abhorrent behavior to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Why, they might just as well be thrown into the gutter and carried off in the scavenger's cart.

A dozen times on the way home had Dirk been on the point of consigning it to the gutter.

Davis begins the film, punched by an aggressor into the gutter and ends it the same way.

But all publications seem to go to the gutter when it comes to Lewinsky.