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Definition
veins in the neck that return blood from the heador:
amy vital part that is vulnerable to attack
- You can feel your pulse by pressing lightly with a finger at the base of the external jugular vein.
- he always goes for the jugular
- I lowered the glass, considering one quick slice to the jugular that would end it all.Alex Flinn -- Beastly
- She kicked and flailed while Caul held a sharpened icicle to her throat and shouted, "Stay back or I drive this through her jugular!"Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
- Cut him right through the jugular.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- I knew he was seeking to cut the all-important vein, the jugular.Wilson Rawls -- Where the Red Fern Grows
- A quick incision to the jugular with a surgical knife; blood gurgles into a slop bucket; and all is over.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- You went for the jugular, just like a cop's supposed to in a murder case.J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death
- "We've just inserted catheters into your carotid artery and jugular vein," says the nurse.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- 'Separation of jugular vein—death rapid—been dead at least half an hour.'Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- A pulsing jugular looped lazily down the length of her neck.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- It smashes his mouth, spraying out teeth, and penetrates to the jugular.John Gardner -- Grendel
- He was motionless as I pressed my lips to his jugular.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- I lay on the floor moaning that the dwarf ghost had done me wrong by sucking on my jugular vein.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- The shot was fired; the ball entered under his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the jugular vein.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- My bias is that successful advertising requires you to shock your audience—catch them unaware and, eh, go for that jugular.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- Slowly it shifted up along the jugular.Jack London -- White Fang
- Words that went for the jugular.Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese
- Then he drew his knife, wrapped the bridle reins tightly around one hand, and jabbed the knife into the horse's neck, slashing the jugular vein.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- 'There's black, hopeless rage in her eyes, the type of anger you feel when your hands are tied and there's a knife at your jugular.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
jugular = veins in the neck that return blood from the head
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