guzzle

verb

1. (informal, transitive)To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

   “No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.”

   “They had a delightful meal, eating as much as possible, for whenever they stopped eating the Puddin" sang out-- "Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle, Never leave the table till you're full up to the muzzle."”

   “What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?”

   “It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. The seat is an extension of the sofa, the match another Pick of the Day in the Radio Times. Some are wearing Santa hats, some have been drinking only six or seven hours after last stopping, guzzling away, topping up their levels to reach pie-eyed delirium.”

2. (dated, informal, intransitive)To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.

   “A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.”

   “Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.”

   “Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled, devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]”

3. (broadly, informal, transitive)To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.

   “This car just guzzles petrol.”

   “2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.”

4. (informal, intransitive, rare)To flow copiously; to spray out.

   “Blood guzzled from the wound.”

   “The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.”

noun

1. (dated, uncountable)Drink; intoxicating liquor.

   “Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown”

2. (dated)A drinking bout; a debauch.
3. (dated)An insatiable thing or person.
4. (British, obsolete)A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

   “Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?”

   “This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.”

5. The throat.