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verb eat/drink sth quickly ADV. greedily | noisily | down She gulped down her coffee and left. make a swallowing movement ADV. nervously ‘Do you know where she is?’ asked Chris. The man gulped nervously and nodded. PHRASES gulp for air/breath Keith swam to the surface and gulped for air., noun amount you swallow when you gulp ADJ. deep, great, huge, large, long VERB + GULP take She took a large gulp of wine from the bottle. PREP. in ~s She drank the tea in great gulps. | ~ of act of gulping ADJ. loud, noisy VERB + GULP give He gave a loud gulp and stopped mid-sentence. PREP. with a ~ ‘I'm afraid I've broken it,’ she said with a gulp. PHRASES at a/one gulp, in one/a single gulp He downed half the contents of the glass in one loud gulp.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary