0 present participle of gulp
1 to eat or drink food or liquid quickly by swallowing it in large amounts, or to make a swallowing movement because of fear, surprise, or excitement:
Yet here we are losing 25,000 lives a year through the gulping in of great masses of smoke from cigarettes, and nobody seems to care.
A lot of drunkenness takes place through people gulping down drinks to keep within the drinking regulations.
The swim bladder is connected to the esophagus, allowing for gulping or rapid expulsion of air, a condition known as physostome.
The fish develop pale gills, and may swim close to the water surface, gulping for air.
They are noisy birds, especially at dawn and dusk, with a loud, gulping call.
These proposals may explain why premature infants spend 2.5% of their time hiccuping, possibly gulping like amphibians, as their lungs are not yet fully formed.
The eggs are hatched from the combined pressure of the hatchlings gulping air.
The technique involves the use of the glottis to add to an inspiratory effort by gulping boluses of air into the lungs.
