(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.
Swig
Definition:
(v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
(v. t.) To suck.
(n.) A long draught.
(n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
(n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
(v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
(v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A paramedic taking a swig from the Coke bottle in his glove compartment that's half vodka."
(2) Just when you’re wondering if the real Nigel Farage will stand up, he ends the ad by swigging from a good old pint of ale.
(3) One man took turns swigging from what appeared to be a bottle of pink champagne in each hand, shouting “no justice, no peace” to no one in particular.
(4) Goldfish are swallowed, whisky is swigged from condoms, bodily fluids are smeared on furniture.
(5) And in case you wondered where she stood on this final, most pathetic failure of New York's imperious chief executive, on Monday night across from Piers Morgan, Quinn took a massive swig from a 32oz soft drink.
(6) When two men dressed entirely in tin foil with silver bobbles on their heads walked into the village swigging beer, TV reporters immediately surrounded them.
(7) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
(8) Nadal trots to his chair for a quick swig of an energy drink.
(9) The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home.
(10) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
(11) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
(12) People swigged beer, marijuana spiced the air, hip-hop streamed from a sound system.
(13) Swigging his brown bitter while Morrissey sipped his orange juice, he tried to find out whether this Smiths person liked Special K, Prefab Sprout or the Beatles.
(14) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian We found a spot outside HSBC, sniggered at the irony, and I took a swig from my hip flask of hot water, honey and lemon, and another swig of Buttercup cough syrup before we kicked off.
(15) Ahrendts, who is married to her childhood sweetheart and has three children, rises at 5am and swigs Diet Coke.
(16) Remember the rise of the 90s “ladette”, personified in 1999 by the then Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter Zoë Ball swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the morning of her wedding to Norman Cook?
(17) In my view, people are searching for a different coffee experience, and that’s what artisan coffee is.” When Extract started roasting coffee beans in a shed in 2007, there were no hordes of bearded, craft beer swigging hipsters banging down the door for their daily caffeine hit.
(18) The two leaders, along with Merkel’s chemistry professor husband, Joachim Sauer, then sat down with locals for a specially brewed G7 summit banana and clove-flavour weissbier, weisswurst and pretzels, all of them appearing to swig back the beer, despite the early hour.
(19) A portly, bespectacled figure sporting a plum-coloured tie, Cayne swigged from a plastic bottle of water while answering questions.
(20) One quick swig from the magic bottle later and he's okay.