guzzler
English
Noun
guzzler (plural guzzlers)
- Somebody or something which guzzles.
- 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 11:
- The crowd was the usual assortment of folk purists wearing faded jeans, beer guzzlers wearing faded smiles, and plainclothesmen wearing freshly pressed jeans and carrying Harmony guitars.
- A device placed in arid regions to catch water for wildlife to drink from.
- 1954, Wildlife Review, numbers 75-83, page 44:
- Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.
Synonyms
- (guzzler of food): glutton, gorger; See also Thesaurus:glutton
- (guzzler of drink): alcoholic, sot, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
Derived terms
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