GULP

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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. Cowper. The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. Fielding. To gulp up, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.

2.
n.

The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.

3.
n.

A disgorging. [Colloq.]

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