water gate

See also: watergate and Watergate

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Noun

water gate (plural water gates)

1. A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated.
2. Alternative form of watergate (“gate opening onto water, or only or mainly accessible by water”).
3. (slang, obsolete) A vulva or vagina.

See also

• floodgate
• sluice gate

 

References

• “water gate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.