Sekirov Dictionary

guzzle

/ˈɡʌzəl/

noun 5
verb 4
forms 3
phrases 2

noun5

(old-fashioned) A drinking bout; a debauch.
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(old-fashioned) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
- Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown
The throat.
(old-fashioned) An insatiable thing or person.
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(UK, no longer used) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
- Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure? — 1598

verb4

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(informal) To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
- No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. — 1720
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(informal) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
- A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. — 1649
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(informal) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
- This car just guzzles petrol.
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(informal, rare) To flow copiously; to spray out.
- Blood guzzled from the wound.
- The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.

forms

guzzled · guzzling · guzzles

Phrases with guzzle

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