guzzling
8
6.5
- noun
- /ˈɡʌzlɪŋ/
- Informal
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trago
- A solar-powered car and a Saint Bernard-drawn Conestoga wagon on display reminded residents that gas-guzzling, polluting cars are not the only way to travel.
Examples
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Low gas prices led to high production and ownership of gas-guzzling vehicles.
Blog text (19) -
Get out of your gas-guzzling car and get a grip!
Blog text (25) -
We thought fuel would be relatively cheap forever and bought gas-guzzling SUVs.
Blog text (25) -
I was given the stink eye by other attendees for arriving in my vintage, gas-guzzling Chevy truck.
Blog text (23) -
Ford may have been myopic in building mostly huge gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks, but that is what Americans have been buying.
Blog text (17) -
Brown has created a middle-class persona with his $600 barn coat and his gas-guzzling pickup truck.
Blog text (33) -
And if they're thinking of buying a gas-guzzling, polluting SUV (sports utility vehicle), ask them to think again.
Fiction book (2000) -
Basic decisions become more difficult: it is not so easy to choose whether to buy a gas-guzzling SUV or a hybrid Prius if you do not know whether gasoline will cost $3 a gallon or $5 in a few years.
Academic text (2011) -
The government has so far been unable and unwilling to follow any of the proposed means: price hikes, dual pricing, rationing, scrapping gas-guzzling cars, or improving public transportation to cut consumption.
Academic text (2007) -
After guzzling his drink in one go, he slammed the empty cup down on the table.
Synonyms
3
8.2
Drinking very large amounts of liquid quickly, often alcohol
3
3.3
An act of swallowing food or drink quickly, often in large mouthfuls
Antonyms
How Quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Guzzling comes from the word guzzle, which was made to copy the noisy sound of someone drinking fast, like the short word gulp. So guzzling means 'drinking a lot quickly and greedily'.