gurgitation

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English

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Etymology

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See gurgitator.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɡɜː.dʒɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌɡɝ.d͡ʒəˈteɪ.ʃən/
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Noun

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gurgitation (plural gurgitations)

  1. Competitive eating.
    • 2006 April 4, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 20:
      [...] stand at the sanctum sanctorum of eating, the Mount Sinai of mastication, the Coliseum of competitive eating, the Madison Square Garden of gurgitation!
    • 2007 05, Jason Fagone, Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 19:
      Once the occasion for manly pride, eating contests now faded into the hidden recesses of personal biography, [...] Into the delicate ecosystem of American gurgitation, the Federation introduced several new elements: first, []
    • 2011 July 28, Allen Smith, Watching Grandma Circle the Drain, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 152:
      Eating. New York, New York—The world of competitive eating shocked the sports world yesterday when the IFOCE (International Federation of Competitive Eating) announced widespread changes to the sport of professional gurgitation.
    • 2011 October 1, Bathroom Readers' Institute, Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      He placed third in the Glutton Bowl's cow brain eating finals, losing to Takeru Kobayashi—the Tiger Woods of “gurgitation,” as it's known in the trade.