Definition of "guzzle" in English

verb

1. To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

2. (intransitive, dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.

3. (by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.

   • This car just guzzles petrol.
   • 2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.

4. (rare) To flow copiously; to spray out.

   • Blood guzzled from the wound.
   • The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.

noun

1. (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.

   • Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown

2. (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.

3. (dated) An insatiable thing or person.

4. (obsolete, British, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

5. The throat.