gullet

What it means

1. The throat or esophagus.

   Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.

   2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: gorge

2. biologyThe cytopharynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested.

   Synonyms: cytopharynx

3. The space between the teeth of a saw blade.

In a sentence

Turning a national tragedy into something a person can pay $12 to watch while shoveling popcorn down their gullet struck detractors as perverse, though critics spilled a goodly amount of e-ink debating the actual merits of the work itself.

2020 May 26, Charles Bramesco, “Corona-sploitation: is it too soon for Hollywood to make Covid-19 movies?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Where it comes from

1. Latingula
2. Old Frenchgoulet
3. Middle Englishgolet
4. Englishgullet

From Middle English golet, borrowed from Old French goulet, from Latin gula.