gulp down
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[edit]Verb
[edit]gulp down (third-person singular simple present gulps down, present participle gulping down, simple past and past participle gulped down)
- To drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time.
- 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 7.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 190:
- I am so constituted that I absolutely must gulp down the juice of three oranges before confronting the rigors of day.
- To eat very quickly without chewing the food properly.
- (figurative) To believe without questioning; to swallow.
- 1755, Henry Fielding, A Voyage to Lisbon:
- The old man […] glibly gulped down the whole narrative.
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[edit]to drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time
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