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▸ noun: (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
▸ noun: A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
▸ noun: (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
▸ noun: (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
▸ noun: (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
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gag,
gunpoint,
gun muzzle,
muzzock,
muffle,
mouth,
mouthpiece,
mouthpart,
mouthline,
muzzle compensator,
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