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What does gutter mean?

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Noun
  1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
  2. A ditch along the side of a road.
  3. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
  4. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
  5. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
  6. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
  7. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
  8. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
  9. (Britain) A drainage channel.
  10. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
  11. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
Verb
  1. To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
  2. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
  3. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
  4. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
  5. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
  6. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
Noun
  1. One who or that which guts.
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