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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
  • A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges.
  • Any similarly shaped container.
  • A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
  • (clothes, a channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity, or any general 'U' or 'V' shaped channel conveying water for irrigation purposes.
  • (Canadian) A gutter under the eaves of a building; '''eaves trough'''.
  • meteorology A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

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Verb:

  • To eat in a vulgar style, as if eating from a trough

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