Australian and New Zealand slang for a drain or plughole — the thing water disappears down with that characteristic gurgling sound. Beyond its literal meaning, 'down the gurgler' is a widely understood Antipodean idiom for something that has been completely ruined, wasted, or lost. You might say a deal, a relationship, or a plan went down the gurgler when things fell apart in a total and irreversible way.
The kitchen flooded because someone had shoved a cloth right into the gurgler and blocked it completely.
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One who, or that which, gurgles.
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(AU, NZ, slang) A drain.
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