Dictionary

gulp down en · VERB

Meanings

1. To drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time.
   • I am so constituted that I absolutely must gulp down the juice of three oranges before confronting the rigors of day. 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 7.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 190:
2. To eat very quickly without chewing the food properly.
3. (figuratively) To believe without questioning; to swallow.
   • The old man […] glibly gulped down the whole narrative. 1755, Henry Fielding, A Voyage to Lisbon:

Forms

Translations (16)

tr lıkır lıkır içmek (to drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time) · pt tragar (to eat very quickly without chewing) · es engullir (to eat very quickly without chewing) · la gluttiō (to eat very quickly without chewing) · pl wypić duszkiem (to drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time) · de hinunterstürzen (to drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time) · de hinuntergießen (to drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time) · bg поглъщам (to eat very quickly without chewing) · pl pożerać (to eat very quickly without chewing) · tr lüpletmek (to eat very quickly without chewing) · de hinunterschlingen (to eat very quickly without chewing) · pl pożreć (to eat very quickly without chewing) · it inghiottire (to eat very quickly without chewing) · de hinunterkippen (to drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time) · pl wypijać duszkiem (to drink very quickly, swallowing large quantities of liquid at a time) · grc λαφύσσω (to eat very quickly without chewing)