guzzle

Plural: guzzles

Verb

Verb Forms: guzzled, guzzling, guzzles

To drink something quickly and excessively.
drink greedily or as if with great thirst
- "The boys guzzled the cheap vodka"
To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
To flow copiously; to spray out.

Noun

Drink; intoxicating liquor.
A drinking bout; a debauch.
An insatiable thing or person.
A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
The throat.

Examples

Blood guzzled from the wound.
He would guzzle coffee to stay sharp during late-night Words With Friends tournaments.
The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.
This car just guzzles petrol.

Origin / Etymology

Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”).

Synonyms

swig, swill

Scrabble Score: 25

guzzle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
guzzle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
guzzle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 28

guzzle: valid Words With Friends Word