- any of the three large veins in the neck that carry blood from the head towards the heartTopics Bodyc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from late Latin jugularis, from Latin jugulum ‘collarbone, throat’, diminutive of jugum ‘yoke’.
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See jugular in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo for the jugular
- (informal) to attack somebody’s weakest point during a discussion, in an aggressive way
- She went straight for the jugular and asked him to explain his previous criminal record.
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