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glug

/gləg/
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Other forms: glugs; glugging; glugged

When something glugs it makes the sloshing, gurgling sound of liquid being poured out of a bottle. You might glug some milk onto that sugary cereal and call it breakfast!

There's a distinctive sound you make when you thirstily gulp water from a bottle or pour a healthy amount of olive oil into a pan: glug, glug, glug. This imitative, informal word comes from the Old English glub, "to swallow greedily." You can use it as a noun or a verb, so you might ask for a glug of syrup on your pancakes or glug an energy drink after a run on a hot day.

Definitions of glug
  1. verb
    make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle
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    type of:
    go, sound
    make a certain noise or sound
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