Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of gulp.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly
  • noun a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing

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Examples

  • They can't take it anymore and loudly exhale and begin gulping air, to which I respond, "That need."

    Why do you hunt? 2009

  • They can't take it anymore and loudly exhale and begin gulping air, to which I respond, "That need."

    Why do you hunt? 2009

  • Tea-partiers, that "tea" you're gulping is actually Kool-Aid, and you're ALL being purchased with it.

    Tea Party Express unveils 'heroes,' 'targets' 2010

  • (She asks while gulping from a soup-bowl-sized mug of the dark brown elixir that magically moves her from point A to B to C, etc., each morning.)

    Caffeine buzz M-mv 2004

  • Woest, 58, who works as a volunteer for the Cancer Association in Pretoria, will speak to the health portfolio committee using a technique known as esophageal speech, which he describes as gulping in air and "letting it come out like a burp".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • It'll be impossible for him to give a speech without that bizarre 'gulping' open-mouth, jutting jaw tic that afflicts him and which he seems incapable of controlling.

    Is Gordon Brown At It Again? 2007

  • She had sat down on the floor of the back lobby, the better to pull off the old socks she wore inside her boots, and at a kind of gulping sound from Betsy, she turned her head.

    Stormy Springtime Neels, Betty 1987

  • I want to live -- to live -- live, and be young, "gulping," with strong muscle and moist flesh.

    A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • After "gulping" down the six volumes of Buchez and Roux, he declares: "The clearest thing I got out of them is an immense disgust for the French ....

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

  • I want to live -- to live -- live, and be young, "gulping," with strong muscles and moist flesh Sixty-nine years -- and they are gone! "

    A Lady of Quality 1896

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