guzzle

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After which he paused to sigh, and leaped up to cheer and sat down again to--guzzle!

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  1. transitive verb To drink greedily or habitually: guzzle beer.
  2. transitive verb To consume to excess: a car that guzzles gas.
  3. intransitive verb To drink, especially alcoholic beverages, greedily or habitually.

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  • He said, 'Gorge, guzzle, and wench, for tomorrow we get gutted.' —  Castle Roogna
  • 'Let men sleep rather than guzzle,' they say—aye, so they can work and fight better for their masters! —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • Of China's domestic automakers, it appears closest to bridging the gap between battery technology and vehicle technology that has hindered the efforts of even the biggest automakers to bring out models that do not guzzle mainly gasoline or diesel. —  Manufacturing.net Headline News
  • Certainly, there's plenty to worry about when it comes to how many calories we guzzle each day. —  Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
  • Our dynamic crime-fighting duo - self-described as "impossibly hot" - is Dean Winters and Kathryn Erbe, who amble around the set trying to determine their surroundings (a library), casually assess the vic (a woman in a red dress, gunshot wound to the head), guzzle the goods from a nearby craft services truck, and get their grubby hands on every possible piece of evidence in the room. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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guzzle:   guzzling ·  guzzled ·  guzzles
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Perhaps from Old French *gouziller, in comp. desgouziller, gulp down, swallow; this is perhaps connected with F. gosier, the throat. Cf. Lorraine gosse, the throat, the stomach of fatted animals, Italian gozzo, the throat, the crop of a bird. Prob. not connected etymologically with guddle or guttle.
  2. from guzzle, v.
 

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