(gulps, gulping, gulped)
1.
If you gulp something, you eat or drink it very quickly by swallowing large quantities of it at once.
She quickly gulped her tea.
VERB: V n
2.
If you gulp, you swallow air, often making a noise in your throat as you do so, because you are nervous or excited. (WRITTEN)
I gulped, and then proceeded to tell her the whole story...
'I'm sorry,' he gulped.
VERB: V, V with quote
3.
If you gulp air, you breathe in a large amount of air quickly through your mouth.
She gulped air into her lungs...
He slumped back, gulping for air.
VERB: V n into n, V for n
4.
A gulp of air, food, or drink, is a large amount of it that you swallow at once.
I took in a large gulp of air...
When his whisky came he drank half of it in one gulp.
N-COUNT: oft N of n