gulp down

verb — 3 senses

gulp down

verb

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:

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