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Adam’s apple

Ad·am's ap·ple (plural Ad·am's ap·ples)


noun 
Definition:
 
lump at front of throat: the hard lump at the front of the neck formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx

[< the belief that it results from the forbidden apple being stuck in Adam's throat]
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