Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
gulp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly
- noun a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing
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Examples
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They can't take it anymore and loudly exhale and begin gulping air, to which I respond, "That need."
Why do you hunt? 2009
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They can't take it anymore and loudly exhale and begin gulping air, to which I respond, "That need."
Why do you hunt? 2009
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Tea-partiers, that "tea" you're gulping is actually Kool-Aid, and you're ALL being purchased with it.
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(She asks while gulping from a soup-bowl-sized mug of the dark brown elixir that magically moves her from point A to B to C, etc., each morning.)
Caffeine buzz M-mv 2004
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Woest, 58, who works as a volunteer for the Cancer Association in Pretoria, will speak to the health portfolio committee using a technique known as esophageal speech, which he describes as gulping in air and "letting it come out like a burp".
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It'll be impossible for him to give a speech without that bizarre 'gulping' open-mouth, jutting jaw tic that afflicts him and which he seems incapable of controlling.
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She had sat down on the floor of the back lobby, the better to pull off the old socks she wore inside her boots, and at a kind of gulping sound from Betsy, she turned her head.
Stormy Springtime Neels, Betty 1987
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I want to live -- to live -- live, and be young, "gulping," with strong muscle and moist flesh.
A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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After "gulping" down the six volumes of Buchez and Roux, he declares: "The clearest thing I got out of them is an immense disgust for the French ....
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921
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I want to live -- to live -- live, and be young, "gulping," with strong muscles and moist flesh Sixty-nine years -- and they are gone! "
A Lady of Quality 1896
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