glug

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noun

plural glugs
1
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
The only sounds were by Handel and the glug-glug of the pool filter.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
b
: a large sip
took a glug of water before returning to the ring

glug

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verb

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

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
Noun
Pour in one part apple cider vinegar to three parts water, or just a BIG glug. Lauren Murdoch-Smith, Vogue, 6 July 2024 Mash together a small glug of olive oil, half a dozen garlic cloves and a tablespoon of coarse salt with a mortar and pestle, blender or food processor. Lucinda Scala Quinn, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
Verb
The rest of us apparently just glug it down. Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022 See all Example Sentences for glug 

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Word History

Etymology

Noun

imitative

Verb

derivative of glug entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1707, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1895, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of glug was in 1707

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Cite this Entry

“Glug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glug. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.

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