DCHP-2

cut throat cut-throat DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n.

  in preparing fish for salting, the person who guts the fish and all but severs its head, making it ready to be snapped off by the header.

  See also: header  throater  

• 2 n.

  a large trout of western Canada, Salmo clarkii, so called from a red streak under each side of the lower jaw.

  See also: cutthroat trout