Definition of Gulper

1. Noun. A drinker who swallows large amounts greedily.

Exact synonyms: Guzzler
Generic synonyms: Drinker
Derivative terms: Gulp

Definition of Gulper

1. Noun. One that gulps ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gulper

1. one that gulps [n -S] - See also: gulps

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulper

gullwing
gully
gullying
gullywasher
gullywashers
gulofuranose
gulofuranoside
gulofuranosides
gulose
guloses
gulosities
gulosity
gulp
gulp down
gulped
gulper (current term)
gulper eel
gulpers
gulph
gulphe
gulphes
gulphs
gulpier
gulpiest
gulping
gulpingly
gulps
gulpy
guls
gulty

Literary usage of Gulper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Woodmyth & Fable: Text & Drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton (1905)
"... THE CURE OF THE gulper O, my child; the dragons and monsters are not all gone. There are just as many as ever there were, and they are just as powerful ..."

2. Literature & Writing Connections by Jill Norris, Joy Evans (1997)
"Make a Crocodile gulper Materials: • two strips of stiff poster board 1 ... Use the gulper as a shadow puppet or as a giant pointer: • Gulp little fish to ..."

3. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1891)
"gulper—" No; but he says I must only take a drink after I have been in bathing. ... gulper—" No—n—no, not so very bad; but when a fellow conies to taking ..."

4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... towards the Havel Stream; into which latter, through another plash or lake called gulper See, and a few miles farther, into the Elbe itself, it conveys, ..."

5. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... which is recorded several times: first, among the fishes such as the sturgeon and certain deep-sea forms like the "gulper" eel, ..."

6. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The whole substance is excessively fragile as usual with animals living in great depths and the color is jet black. Three species FIG. 288.—gulper-eel ..."

7. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"NAME of ill omen to that province-gulper, In the CRIMEA he '11 CRY MEA СЩ.РА ! ADVICE FOR THE GOLD FIELDS.—The last advice that has been forwarded to the ..."

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