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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



... goes off like a running pheasant. Doves come and flutter and coo above us, and a pariah dog prowls round timidly. It looks as if it had never wagged its tail in all its sad life, and it swallows a chunk of my chicken at a gulp, and its tail never moves, poor beast. The hot winds sough through the branches, and my men murmer away to each other under a neighbouring tree, possibly about the Sahib, who is such a poor shot, and, as our language is limited, I can't brag about swagger ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch
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... their first existence to the imaginative genius of the writers of the Jewish Talmud. But there is this difference between the Hebrew and the masonic traditions, that the Talmudic scholar recited them as truthful histories, and swallowed, in one gulp of faith, all their impossibilities and anachronisms, while the masonic student has received them as allegories, whose value is not in the facts, but in the sentiments which ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey
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... girls are always running away from me and having secrets that you won't tell me," said Antha with a gulp. "You're doing something now that you won't ...
— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey
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... thus swallowed at a gulp; but all the same Dreda thought it worth while to interview her mother on the subject of her domestic ambitions, and was much disappointed to have her generous offer ...
— Etheldreda the Ready - A School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
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... dragon stretches far His cavern throat, and soon Licks in the horses and the car, And tries to gulp them down. ...
— Persian Literature, Volume 1,Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous
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