clear the throat

1. 1.

   clear mucus or food from one's throat

   “he cleared his throat before he started to speak”

   Synonymshawk

   Broadercough

Questions about clear the throat

What does clear the throat mean?

clear the throat means "clear mucus or food from one's throat".

What is another word for clear the throat?

Close synonyms include hawk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clear the throat a common word?

clear the throat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.