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.
To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.
To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
This car just guzzles petrol.
Drink; intoxicating liquor.
Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown
A drinking bout; a debauch.
Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“t...
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An insatiable thing or person.