Meaning of gulp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The usual amount swallowed.
2. The usual amount swallowed
3. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear
4. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
5. To swallow (food or drink) greedily or rapidly in large amounts:bolt, down, englut, engorge, gobble, guzzle, ingurgitate, swill, wolf.
6. An unspecified small number of bytes, often two
7. An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.
   rare
8. An act of swallowing:ingestion, swallow.
9. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow
10. to swallow eagerly or in large mouthfuls. He gulped down a sandwich. insluk, wegsluk يبلع، يزدرِد، يَلْتَهِم поглъщам жадно engolir (s)polykat hinunterschlingen sluge καταπίνω με μεγάλες μπουκιές, κομματιάζωengullir, zampar, tragar kugistama بلعیدن hotkia engloutir לִגמוֹע निगल जाना progutati mohón lenyel menelan, meneguk gleypa inghiottire ごくりと呑みこむ 급히 먹다 ryti, gurkti rīt; dzert lieliem malkiem teguk schrokken, slokken sette/helle/slurke i seg, slukepołknąć غوړپ، غوړپول، تېرول ( ترسنونى engol...
11. To react nervously by swallowing
12. To swallow greedily or rapidly in large amounts: gulp down coffee.
13. To choke back by or as if by swallowing.
14. To choke or gasp, as in swallowing large amounts of liquid.
15. To swallow air audibly, as in nervousness.
16. The act of gulping.
17. A large amount swallowed at one time.
18. (often foll by: down) to swallow rapidly, esp in large mouthfuls: to gulp down food.
    down

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Examples

“What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.”

“Little Stanislovas was also trembling, and all but too frightened to speak. "They — they sent me to tell you — " he said, with a gulp.”

“Indeed, the envisioned future should produce a bit of "the gulp factor" […], there should be an almost audible "gulp".”

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