guzzling

Verb

guzzle (third-person singular simple present guzzles, present participle guzzling, simple past and past participle guzzled)

1. (informal, transitive) To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
   • No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.1720, John Gay, “Friday; or, the Dirge”, in Poems on Several Occasions
2. (dated, informal, intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
   • A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes
3. (broadly, informal, transitive) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
   • This car just guzzles petrol.
4. (informal, intransitive, rare) To flow copiously; to spray out.
   • Blood guzzled from the wound.

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