guzzler

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Etymology

From guzzle +‎ -er.

Noun

guzzler (plural guzzlers)

  1. Somebody or something which guzzles.
    • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 11:
      The crowd was the usual assortment of folk purists wearing faded jeans, beer guzzlers wearing faded smiles, and plainclothesmen wearing freshly pressed jeans and carrying Harmony guitars.
  2. A device placed in arid regions to catch water for wildlife to drink from.
    • 1954, Wildlife Review, numbers 75-83, page 44:
      Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.

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