plural glugs
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or glug-glug
plural glug-glugs
: a gurgling sound (as of a liquid pouring from a bottle)
Russian sleeper trains are filled with the sounds of laughter, the glug of vodka being poured and playing cards slapping makeshift tables.—
Hannah Jane Parkinson
Hannah Jane ParkinsonThe only sounds were by Handel and the glug-glug of the pool filter.—Don Van Natta, Jr.
Don Van Natta, Jr.2
a
: a small amount of liquid especially when poured from a bottle
a glug of olive oil
She turned the taps to start the water running, poured in a generous glug of vanilla bubble bath …—Cindi Myers
Cindi Myers
b
: a large sip
took a glug of water before returning to the ring
variants
or less commonly glug-glug
or glug-glug-glug
glugging also glug-glugging or glug-glug-glugging; glugged also glug-glugged or glug-glug-glugged; glugs also glug-glugs or glug-glug-glugs
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: to flow or pour with a gurgling sound
… the Delaware river glugged below us.—John Washington
John WashingtonLiquid began glugging out onto the refrigerator shelf.—Reed Johnson
Reed Johnson… bottles obligingly pop, and liquid glug-glugs into glasses.—Adam Tschorn
Adam Tschorn… like pouring soda out of a two-liter bottle. And while it glug-glug-glugs out, if you were to punch a hole in the bottom of the bottle with an ice pick, you'd allow more air in, and the soda would pour out more quickly.—Tom Magliozzi, quoted in The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle
Tom Magliozzi, quoted in The Wichita (Kansas) EagleAlessandro parks the martini trolley by us, pours Sacred Extra Dry Vermouth into iced glasses and swirls it to line the glass, before glug-glug-glugging out the gin.—Damian Barr
Damian Barr2
: to drink quickly
glugged some water
glugging beer/wine/champagne
Unless you suck alcohol through a straw more rapidly than you glug, drinking through a straw does not raise your blood alcohol level faster than other ways of drinking.—Roger Highfield
Roger Highfield"… When the police arrived, they all had two-litre bottles of water, and they just glug-glug-glugged so that they would dilute whatever they had in their system … ."—Kristina Rutherford
Kristina RutherfordExamples of glug in a Sentence
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Lois Goh, Saveur, 13 Nov. 2024
Carlile asked as Mitchell took a glug of pinot grigio.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
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Noun
With a good glug of Sichuan pepper oil, 50Hertz Tingly Foods cofounder Lois Goh brings the spice’s citrusy, numbing flavor to the fore.
—Lois Goh, Saveur, 13 Nov. 2024
Carlile asked as Mitchell took a glug of pinot grigio.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
Verb
The rest of us apparently just glug it down.
—Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
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“Glug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glug. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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