Gulp \Gulp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gulped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gulping}.] [D. gulpen, cf. OD. golpe gulf.] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
He does not swallow, but he gulps it down. --Cowper.
The old man . . . glibly gulped down the whole narrative. --Fielding.
{To gulp up}, to throw up from the stomach; to disgorge.
Gulp \Gulp\, n. 1. The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.
2. A disgorging. [Colloq.]
You gulp but decide to go ahead.
For instance, Lawless cites a cartoon in which a Turtle has run out of pizza money and turns to the camera saying: "This means I'm gonna have to (gulp) get a job!"
The Vaidogubsky can gulp 200,000 gallons an hour under optimum conditions, with a storage capacity of 2 million gallons.
One gulp and they are gone." She spread rakes, brooms, 2-by-4 boards and shelves across the pond, but "they only provided better perches for the heron to gobble fish," she said.
Taking the long view, Mr. Rybczynski explains that people used to know how to have fun, using whatever leisure time they had to gulp gin, bait bears, and watch chickens spur each other to death.
A gulp of the local, very good, beer to stabilise things. A traffic policeman sits down, wearily, at the next table.
A delicious gulp. Henschke Abbott's Prayer Merlot/Cabernet.
Mike Dukakis, who ought to be asked whether he supports transferring decisions from the President to the office of the Trade Representative, probably has to gulp and swallow that kind of guff.
It forms a ball and hangs in front of him until he moves forward to gulp it down.
In a meteoric rise that would make the producers of the movie "Working Girl" gulp, Mullins was made chief of staff in Sen. Robert Packwood's office _ less than two years after she started working for the Oregon Republican.