(v. t.) To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
(n.) The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.
(n.) A disgorging.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chew on this during the change: TBS notes that the Pirates are 69-17 when they score four or more runs....gulp.
(2) Two minutes later he made only the occasional gulp for air.
(3) In between, some witnesses said they saw him gulp and gasp more than 600 times.
(4) The proper name of this panel is "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas."
(5) Another witness, reporter Troy Hayden, told the same paper that it had been "very disturbing to watch ... like a fish on shore gulping for air."
(6) When Adele starred in a rainy London “home for the holidays” edition, she downed a cuppa in one gulp, discussed #squadgoals, rapped Nicki Minaj’s Monster and paid homage to the Spice Girls by busting out Wannabe.
(7) You could almost hear a gulp go around a packed Aviva Stadium before kick-off as home fans considered the lineups.
(8) Hague recalls the anecdote between little gulps of laughter.
(9) I opened one book, and realised with a horrible gulp that I was looking at advice for cooking crow.
(10) Signs of the condition in newborns include gulping and clicking while breastfeeding because they cannot latch on properly.
(11) On Manhattan's tonier Upper West Side, where only one in eight residents is obese, just 14% of residents were gulping sodas daily.
(12) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
(13) As the town parties, Iriondo and Aranzábal are dressed in Basque peasant outfits, celebrating the patron saint of San Roque with midday gulps of rioja, slabs of battered cod and thin slices of ham.
(14) But she has bitten off more than she can chew and I don't mean by gulping down a testicle.
(15) Outraged listeners reached for their blogs and Twitter accounts while the interviewer John Kampfner (whose Radio 4 programme, What Syria Means for Britain, on 9 September at 8pm, includes the interview) audibly gulped.
(16) One spotty lad sold fanzines in the foyer and his spotty girlfriend sold button-badges outside the toilets, but apart from that there was nothing to do apart from watch the bands and drink the watered-down beer, or nip out into the side-streets for a gulp of fresh air and a glimpse of daylight.
(17) she hoots at her gulping husband, woggle quivering with horror.
(18) I gulped and debated whether to disturb the perfect moment but really, I was just looking for an excuse not to confront the reality of the situation.
(19) It was a simple gulp of water, but one that Japan's government hopes will carry symbolic importance as it seeks to ease concern over decontamination efforts at the scene of the country's nuclear crisis.
(20) "Yer all orphans and bastards," snarls dastardly foreman Charlie Crout (Craig Parkinson) as oppressed urchins gulp and clench their bumcheeks.