glug

verb

variants or less commonly glug-glug or glug-glug-glug

ˈgləg-ˈgləg-ˈgləg 

glugging also glug-glugging or glug-glug-glugging; glugged also glug-glugged or glug-glug-glugged; glugs also glug-glugs or glug-glug-glugs

transitive + intransitive

1

: to flow or pour with a gurgling sound

… the Delaware river glugged below us.

—John Washington

Liquid began glugging out onto the refrigerator shelf.

—Reed Johnson

… bottles obligingly pop, and liquid glug-glugs into glasses.

—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

Alessandro 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

2

: 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

"… 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

Examples of glug in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Nivola glugs down the rest of his lager. —Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025

Rodriguez, as fly-on-the-wall, Che, is off stage one time only which gives him the opportunity to glug a glass of water in the wings all the while observing what’s happening on stage during his short absence. —Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 July 2025

The rest of us apparently just glug it down. —Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022

Word History

Etymology

derivative of glug entry 1

First Known Use

1895, in the meaning defined at sense 1