gutter fracture

[ gŭt′ər ]

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A long, narrow, depressed fracture of the skull.

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"My wife and I have been married for nineteen years," says Palmer, mulling the stress-fracture in his family life.
Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He piles the trash into the can and stands in the gutter, waiting for the light to change.
Stanley Booth on the Life and Hard Times of Blues Genius Furry Lewis|Stanley Booth|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Facebook has—to fracture an old phrase—just closed the barn door after a billion cows already departed the premises.
You Can’t Have Facebook’s Best Privacy Policy|Dennis Kneale|May 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Speaking with The Tottenville Review, Foy calls his school of writing “gutter opera.”
Novelist D. Foy Dubs His Debut ‘Gutter Opera’ And Who Are We To Argue?|J.T. Price|May 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

But all publications seem to go to the gutter when it comes to Lewinsky.
Stop Slut-Shaming Monica Lewinsky!|Emily Shire|May 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A drunken man would reel from one side to the other until he fell down a cellar trap-door, into the gutter, or into the sea.
Skipper Worse|Alexander Lange Kielland
Very compact and fine-grained reddish granular quartz, with a glistening lustre, and flat conchoidal fracture.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
When the sound is over, he may not be able to see a trace of the fracture, which at first is very narrow.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
And to think that those documents are perhaps lying in the gutter at this very moment!
The Weight of the Crown|Fred M. White
He was in a dreadful condition—a soiled and hopeless mass from the gutter out of which he had been rescued.
The Woman Gives|Owen Johnson