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Definition of Gulper
1. Noun. A drinker who swallows large amounts greedily.
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
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 ..."