guzzle

[ guhz-uhl ]

/ ˈgʌz əl /

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verb (used with or without object), guz·zled, guz·zling.

to drink, or sometimes eat, greedily, frequently, or plentifully: They spent the whole night guzzling beer.

noun

South Midland and Southern U.S. gozzle.

OTHER WORDS FOR guzzle

1 swill, imbibe, swig, tope; chug-a-lug.

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Origin of guzzle

First recorded in 1570–80; origin uncertain

OTHER WORDS FROM guzzle

guzzler, nounun·guz·zled, adjective

Words nearby guzzle

Guyon, guyot, guyver, Guzmán, Guzmán Blanco, guzzle, guzzler, g.v., GVW, GW, Gwalior

How to use guzzle in a sentence

The answer lies in one striking advance: they will guzzle far less gas.
Twin Disasters Turn 2014 Into the Year of Flying Dangerously|Clive Irving|July 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Here they guzzle their whiskey and make an uproar, while the people of the house sit in a corner.
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography.|Solomon Maimon
After which he paused to sigh, and leaped up to cheer and sat down again to—guzzle!
The Norsemen in the West|R.M. Ballantyne
You may guzzle wine here, but you'll want a drop of water to cool your tongues hereafter!
The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843|Various

If you think you can stay out half the night, and guzzle beer, and then come here to get me up, you can think again.
Dangerous Days|Mary Roberts Rinehart
Howsomever, I strained 'em down, till an old woman would have sworn I had the high-strikes, with a knot o' wind in my guzzle.
The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2)|William Alexander Caruthers

British Dictionary definitions for guzzle

guzzle

/ (ˈɡʌzəl) /

verb

to consume (food or drink) excessively or greedily

Word Origin for guzzle

C16: of unknown origin

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