Sekirov Dictionary

gulp

/ɡʌlp/

noun 3
verb 2
exclamation 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun3

•
The usual amount swallowed.
- What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat. — 1898
•
The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
- Little Stanislovas was also trembling, and all but too frightened to speak. "They — they sent me to tell you — " he said, with a gulp. — 1905
(rare) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.

verb2

•
To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.
- He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. — 1782
•
To react nervously by swallowing.
- The man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said, "What's troublin you?" Percy gulped. The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er-nothing! […]" — 1930

exclamation1

An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.

forms

gulped · gulping · gulps

Phrases with gulp

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