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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guzzle
v
  1. drink greedily or as if with great thirst; "The boys guzzled the cheap vodka"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guzzle \Guz"zle\ (g[ucr]z"z'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Guzzled},
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Guzzling}.] [OP. gosillier, prob. orig., to
      pass through the throat; akin to F. gosier throat; cf. It.
      gozzo a bird's crop.]
      To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
  
               Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. --Milton.
  
               Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who,
               while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.
                                                                              --Roscommon.
  
               To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. --Gay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guzzle \Guz"zle\, v. t.
      To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to
      drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
      --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Guzzle \Guz"zle\, n.
      An insatiable thing or person.
  
               That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure. --Marston.
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