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deep throat

Definition of deep throat

noun

  • a person who anonymously supplies information about covert or illegal action in the organization where they work.

Origin:

1970s: the title of a pornographic film of 1972, first applied in this sense as the name (‘Deep Throat’) of an informant in the Watergate scandal

deep throat in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of deep throat in the US English dictionary