GUZZLE

guzzle

Noun

  1. Drink; intoxicating liquor.
    Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! —
  2. A drinking bout; a debauch.
  3. An insatiable thing or person.
  4. A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

Verb

  1. To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust.
    They spent most of their college days guzzling beer.
  2. To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
  3. To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.
    This car just guzzles petrol.


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