Guzzle

Quick meaning: Guzzle is a verb meaning (transitive) To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

Meaning

(transitive) To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
2. (intransitive, rare) To flow copiously; to spray out.
3. (transitive, by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
4. (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
5. (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
6. (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
7. (obsolete, British, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

Example Sentences

This car just guzzles petrol.

What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?

A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.

No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.

Word Forms

• guzzles
• guzzling
• guzzled
• guzle
• guzzel

Synonyms for guzzle

Depending on context, synonyms include swig, swill.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tope, spend, gorge, ingurgitate, gluttonize, devour.

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