Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who guzzles; an immoderate drinker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An immoderate drinker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Somebody or something which
guzzles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily
- noun someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Emmisions are measured an a weight of polutant per mile basis, and so a gas guzzler is technically cleaner than an economy car on a per gallon basis.
Regulatory Pollution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Tooling about town in a gas guzzler is obviously bad for the environment, but online car rental broker Vroom Vroom Vroom wants you to know that surfing the Web is also destroying the planet.
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Tooling about town in a gas guzzler is obviously bad for the environment, but online car rental broker Vroom Vroom Vroom wants you to know that surfing the Web is also destroying the planet.
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Otherwise, everyone would use 100mpg BMW C1s or 75mpg diesel Smart cars. (let no one reply that 6 people in a 15mpg SUV guzzler is saving fuel over 6 separate Smart cars, PLEASE).
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An allocation of $160,000 will also pay salary for "guzzler" crews to maintain and develop water sources for wildlife.
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We all know about this--the hospitalized friend we did not visit, the gas guzzler we opted not to trade in, the granola bars we hoarded from the homeless man with the cardboard sign at the intersection.
Brett C. Hoover: Can Comfort Keep Us From Caring? Brett C. Hoover 2011
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We all know about this--the hospitalized friend we did not visit, the gas guzzler we opted not to trade in, the granola bars we hoarded from the homeless man with the cardboard sign at the intersection.
Brett C. Hoover: Can Comfort Keep Us From Caring? Brett C. Hoover 2011
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So according to D, if you want to slow down global warming, you should trade in your Prius for a gas guzzler.
Matthew Yglesias » Earnings Dropping, Energy Prices Rising 2010
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Do you oppose luxury taxes, gas guzzler taxes, alcohol and tobacco taxes, car tabs, gas taxes, etc.?
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We all know about this--the hospitalized friend we did not visit, the gas guzzler we opted not to trade in, the granola bars we hoarded from the homeless man with the cardboard sign at the intersection.
Brett C. Hoover: Can Comfort Keep Us From Caring? Brett C. Hoover 2011
atp2007 commented on the word guzzler
The most frequent use of this word today is in relation to low mileage cars, "gas guzzlers" . Cars do not drink gasoline but they burn (actually explode) it in combustion engines. There is presently a Bill in Congress ("cash for clunkers") to give federal rebates for trade-ins of "gas guzzlers".
June 24, 2009