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Gulp   /gəlp/   Listen
noun
Gulp  n.  
1.
The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.
2.
A disgorging. (Colloq.)


verb
Gulp  v. t.  (past & past part. gulped; pres. part. gulping)  To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow. "He does not swallow, but he gulps it down." "The old man... glibly gulped down the whole narrative."
To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.





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"Gulp" Quotes from Famous Books



... pestilent to the whole Christian commonwealth.' The young Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, again, showed his discernment of the situation by whispering in the Conclave to his kinsman Cibo: 'We are in the wolf's jaws; he will gulp us down, unless we make our flight good.' Besides, there was in Italy a widely spread repugnance to the Spanish intruders—Marrani, or renegade Moors, as they were properly called—who crowded the Vatican and threatened to possess the ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds
... upon one occasion for his brother Rudolph's dead rat, so devised as to dangle from string and window before the unhappy passer-by. They were quivering now, these ears, but because the entire little face was twitching back tears and gulp of sobs. ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... you, Bertie, the tears started to my eyes, and I could hardly gulp out a word or two of thanks. What a crisscross of qualities in one human soul! It was not the deed or the words; but it was the almost womanly look in the eyes of this broken, drink-sodden old Bohemian—the sympathy and the craving for sympathy which I read there. Only for an instant ...
— The Stark Munro Letters • J. Stark Munro
... sharply to say something; but he could only utter a great gulp, and, turning away, he went a few yards, and leaned his head upon his arm against a willow tree, and in the bright glow of the burning building, whose gilded smoke rose up like some vast plume, they could see his shoulders heave, while his wife turned to the squire, and in a simple, ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn
... in the raised pattern of the carpet, the candlestick uttered a silver note, his pent-in breath escaped with a loud gulp, and Mrs. Merillia's delicate voice cried out from behind her ...
— The Prophet of Berkeley Square • Robert Hichens


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