guzzle
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Is guzzle a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of guzzle?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.Examples: "A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar."; "Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise."; "Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled, devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]"
2. (by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.Examples: "This car just guzzles petrol."; "2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted."
3. (rare) To flow copiously; to spray out.Examples: "Blood guzzled from the wound."; "The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole."
noun (English)
1. (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.Examples: "Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown"
2. (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
3. (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
4. (obsolete, British, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.Examples: "Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?"; "This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch."
Definition source: Wiktionary