guzzle
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əl verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
1.
to drink, or sometimes eat, greedily, frequently, or plentifully: They spent the whole night guzzling beer.
noun
2.
South Midland and Southern U.S. gozzle.
Origin:
1570–80; origin uncertain
1570–80; origin uncertain
Related forms
guz·zler, noun
un·guz·zled, adjective
Synonyms
1. swill, imbibe, swig, tope; chugalug.
1. swill, imbibe, swig, tope; chugalug.
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| —vb | |
| to consume (food or drink) excessively or greedily | |
| [C16: of unknown origin] | |
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Guzzle
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
guzzle
1576, probably related to Fr. goiser "throat," or imitative of the sound of drinking greedily.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
guzzle definition[ˈgəzlæ]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Before you make any life-altering decisions in the future, you may want to guzzle a few liters of water.
My, how some of the old topers do guzzle it for about two days.
Insulated from the reality of rising world prices, consumers guzzle more oil than if they had to pay full market prices.
The plant's towering stalks guzzle groundwater, reducing habitat for songbirds that use native riparian vegetation.
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