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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
guzzle .
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Examples
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Yet, when I felt that quick-lightning feeling for the first time, I gulped and guzzled it down and then sputtered to life.
Nicki Richesin: When Love Came for Me Nicki Richesin 2012
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While he guzzled the champagne and plowed into his lobster, cracking the shell with gusto, she saw only lust for life.
Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011
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That's tiny compared with the $33bn guzzled up by eurozone banks, but it does suggest Japan's financial sector is fragile.
If RBS takes stakes in its ailing debtors, who knows what George Osborne could end up owning? 2012
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"At nine past nine the piggy swine / Broke down the door and guzzled brine / And hogged sweet cakes and oinked loud grunts / And pulled all kinds of dirty stunts."
Sendak's Party Animals Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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Besides higher labor-unit costs, AMR's aging fleet guzzled fuel and put off customers, bleeding market share to newly consolidated rivals.
American Airlines Takes Evasive Action Liam Denning 2011
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Bill Styron certainly never had a reputation of being a drunkard—in fact it was a standing joke among friends like Willie Morris and Irwin Shaw that he "nursed" his drinks, while the rest of us guzzled.
A Roaring Literary Lion Winston Groom 2011
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He guzzled the last of his draft beer and slurred.
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Sitting behind the wheel, he cracked open the soda and guzzled it down.
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He guzzled what was in his glass, set it down on the table, and reached for a cracker.
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While he guzzled the champagne and plowed into his lobster, cracking the shell with gusto, she saw only lust for life.
Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011
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