Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - guzzle

(guzzles, guzzling, guzzled) 1. If you guzzle something, you drink it or eat it quickly and greedily. (INFORMAL) Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade. VERB: V n, also V 2. If you say that a vehicle guzzles fuel, you mean that it uses a lot of it in a way that is wasteful and unnecessary. The plane was deafeningly noisy, guzzled fuel, and left a trail of smoke. VERB: V n • -guzzling The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars. ...big energy-guzzling houses. COMB in ADJ: ADJ n see also gas guzzler