deep throat

deep throat
n.
after the name used by a journalist for the anonymous informant in the WATERGATE scandal < the particular kind of fellatio depicted in the pornographic film Deep Throat (1972)
[also D- T-] an anonymous informant who secretly provides inside information to a journalist

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the humorous name taken from the title of a sex film and used by two Washington Post journalists, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, to refer to the person who gave them a lot of information about Watergate. They never revealed the person’s real name.

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