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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jugular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. jugular: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Jugular: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Jugular: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. jugular: Medical dictionary
  7. Jugular: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jugular: A Word A Day
  2. jugular: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jugular: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.
adjective:  (relational) Of or pertaining to the jugular vein.
adjective:  (zootomy, of fish) Having ventral fins attached under the throat.
adjective:  (humorous, relational) Relating to juggling.
noun:  (by extension) Any critical vulnerability.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of jugular vein. [(anatomy) Any of several veins on each side of the neck, which drain the brain, face and neck of deoxygenated blood.]

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