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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guzzle.

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Examples

  • The article also repeated a common misconception about cotton, calling it a plant that "guzzles" more than thirty inches of water a year.

    Letters 1995

  • Millar slumps in a chair and guzzles the first of many bottles of water in an attempt to quench his raging dehydration.

    David Millar: I'd be surprised if Bradley Wiggins made Tour top 10 2011

  • It also guzzles fuel the way a drunk downs liquor and has spent more than $20 billion in Afghanistan and Iraq annually just on air conditioning.

    Tom Engelhardt: Debacle! Tom Engelhardt 2012

  • Make no mistake, "Cleopatra" will drive some historians cuckoo: It conflates, guzzles centuries in a single sentence.

    Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana Marie Arana 2010

  • Will Ferrell's latest character lives on his front lawn, where he sleeps in an easy chair, guzzles beer nonstop and munches frozen burritos from a rotisserie cooker plugged in by extension cord.

    Fighting the Stigma of Being Funny John Jurgensen 2011

  • There is a call of the belly for meat the stench of which offends not the stars, and for tea such as Tummasook guzzles, and there is a great yearning for the tobacco of Neewak, who is shaman and who plans to destroy us.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Millar slumps in a chair and guzzles the first of many bottles of water in an attempt to quench his raging dehydration.

    David Millar: I'd be surprised if Bradley Wiggins made Tour top 10 2011

  • The typical semi-trailer truck guzzles 20,000 gallons of diesel annually and uses the same roads day after day.

    T. Boone Pickens: Get With the Plan T. Boone Pickens 2011

  • There is a call of the belly for meat the stench of which offends not the stars, and for tea such as Tummasook guzzles, and there is a great yearning for the tobacco of Neewak, who is shaman and who plans to destroy us.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • The typical semi-trailer truck guzzles 20,000 gallons of diesel annually and uses the same roads day after day.

    T. Boone Pickens: Get With the Plan T. Boone Pickens 2011

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