1 ~ sth (down) to swallow large amounts of food or drink quickly:
[VN] He gulped down the rest of his tea and went out. [also V]
2 to swallow, but without eating or drinking anything, especially because of a strong emotion such as fear or surprise:
She gulped nervously before trying to answer. [also Vspeech]
3 ~ (for sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gulp is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gulp a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gulp is tagged as verb.
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