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Definition of windpipe : The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

Synonyms:

bad breath, breathing, airway, trachea, breath, asphyxia, artificial respiration, bronchiole, blow, bronchial tube

breathing hole, air pipe, flue, bronchus, chimney, throat, air shaft, blowhole, vent

Usage examples:

• As Billy leaped he had dug his fingers into the fellow's windpipe to choke any outcry, and when Lathrop seized him by the legs he toppled over like a felled ox without uttering a sound. - "The Boy Aviators in Africa", Captain Wilbur Lawton.
• First it was her arms that wound themselves about my neck, long, sinuous, and supple as the tentacles of some vile monster; then, as I struggled, her thumbs were on my windpipe like pads of steel. - "Dead Men Tell No Tales", E. W. Hornung.
• The pirate's hissing, " Die, cursed thern," was half choked in his windpipe by my clutching fingers. - "The Gods of Mars", Edgar Rice Burroughs.