gollop
/ˈɡɒləp
/British informal
verb (gollops, golloping, golloped) [with object]
Swallow (food) hastily or greedily.I was more appreciative of the Steam Ale in my fragile state, but I also golloped the porter down....
- Nipper and Hetty golloped down the chicken but didn't seem at first to be interested in the other bits.
- The big olive-bronze pollack just grabbed the eel and golloped it down in one swift lunge.
noun
A hasty gulp.
Origin
Early 19th century: perhaps from gulp, influenced by gobble1.
Rhymes
- metempsychotically
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- meteor
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- meteor bumper
- meteor cloud
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- meteoric
- meteorically
- meteoric stone
- meteorism
- meteorismus
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