guzzle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   drink greedily or as if with great thirst

   The boys guzzled the cheap vodka.

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576.

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