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noun (2)

British

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That of course would be Lewis, an old high school acquaintance, who’s coked to the gills and deep in the grip of paranoid delusions when Skye arrives. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024 Families in cars packed to the gills shared the roads with trucks bearing loads of debris from Helene. Stephanie Castellano, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024 The successful escapees navigated back up the esophagus and exited tail-first from the predator’s gills. Bygennaro Tomma, science.org, 9 Sep. 2024 But what happened when that top pick was armed to the gills with advantages? Nick Caruso, TVLine, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gill 

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“Gill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gill. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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