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When someone has eaten a lot and are very full.
Over-eaten; too full after a meal
"Stuffed to the gills" means that a person is very full, or satiated, from eating too much, because stuffed refers to being full of food or other things, while "to the gills" refers to a whole fish with stuffing in the body cavity up to behind the head where the gills are located.
The term is "stuffed to the gills" and is when someone ate too much and is overfull.
It is referring to a part of the fish, that is just under the head. A human equivalent would be the lower cheeks next to, and the upper throat under the mouth.
It is also used in the expression, he lookeda little green around thegills.
Stuffed up to the Gills means you have filled up your stomach and even your esophagus, and can't eat any more without looking a little green around the gills and maybe throwing up.
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