gulping down

Verb

gulp down (third-person singular simple present gulps down, present participle gulping down, simple past and past participle gulped down)

1. To drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time.
   • I am so constituted that I absolutely must gulp down the juice of three oranges before confronting the rigors of day.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 7.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 190
2. To eat very quickly without chewing the food properly.
3. (figuratively) To believe without questioning; to swallow.
   • The old man […] glibly gulped down the whole narrative.1755, Henry Fielding, A Voyage to Lisbon