Definitions for gulp

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Spelling: [guhlp]

IPA: /gʌlp/

Gulp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in gulp (glpu).

Definitions for gulp

noun

1. the act of gulping:
2. the amount swallowed at one time; mouthful.

verb (used with object)

1. to swallow eagerly, or in large drafts or morsels (often followed by down):
2. to suppress, subdue, or choke back as if by swallowing:

verb (used without object)

1. to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.

Origin of gulp

1400-50; late Middle English gulpen (v.); compare Dutch gulpen, Norwegian glupa

Examples for gulp

Nobody expects movies like this one to celebrate single motherhood as an identity or as a (gulp) lifestyle choice.

Heneage ordered a large brandy and soda, and drunk half of it at a gulp.

Nominees: Transformers, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter and—gulp—Real Steel.

He swallowed down the tea with a gulp, and rammed the bread into his pocket.

The others could hear the big sigh with which he drew in a gulp of air.

Santobono at one gulp emptied his glass and clacked his tongue.

At boilerplate moments, including “closeup of sad senator,” take a gulp of beer.

In one gulp he could swallow a boy of my size, and this he did three times each day.

I have now worked in journalism for (gulp) almost ten years, longer than I've done anything else.

Even so distant, I can taste the grief, / Bitter and sharp with stalks, he made you gulp…Where bridal London bows the other way.