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deep throat

an anonymous informant who secretly provides inside information to a journalist

Etymology: after the name used by a journalist for the anonymous informant in the Watergate scandal < the particular kind of fellatio depicted in the pornographic film Deep Throat (1972)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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