Usually means: Swish liquid in throat, mouth.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gargle: Merriam-Webster
  2. gargle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gargle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gargle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gargle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gargle, gargle: Wordnik
  7. gargle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gargle: Wiktionary
  9. gargle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gargle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gargle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gargle: Dictionary.com
  13. gargle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gargle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gargle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gargle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gargle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gargle: Rhymezone
  19. gargle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gargle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gargle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gargle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gargle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gargle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gargle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. gargle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. gargle: Medical dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gargle, gargle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gargle: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. gargle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gargled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) to clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs
verb:  (intransitive) to make a sound like the one made while gargling
verb:  (transitive) to clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth)
verb:  (transitive) to use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling.
verb:  (slang, transitive) to perform oral sex on (a person or genitals).
noun:  A liquid used for gargling.
noun:  (countable) The sound or act of gargling.
noun:  (slang, countable, uncountable) Lager or other alcoholic drink.
noun:  Obsolete form of gargoyle. [A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.]

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