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Verb
xertz (third-person singular simple present xertzes, present participle xertzing, simple past and past participle xertzed)
- (slang, rare) To down all of (a food or drink) with great speed; to chug or scoff down.
Every weekend, I have to xertz my breakfast as fast as possible, otherwise I would be late for my swimming lessons.
1987 January 13, “Humour”, in The Gateway, Edmonton, Alb.: University of Alberta, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:Xertz means to swallow quickly, as in what you do to liver so your tongue doesn't have time to figure out what it is. […] The quality of a beer drinker can be seen in his ability to xertz a yepsen, yill-caup or yaffle in under eight seconds.
1999 March 20, ChaiTheDog, “: "Marge the Missionary" Act II”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):Mr. Burns: Quit stammering, Mr. Limbaugh! I know why you want a job. You suffer from a humongous impetus to xertz your liquor, you drunkulous monolith! Now get out of my office! You're fired!
2000 June 15, Spuddie, “Errr.. Spuddie?”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet):On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:42:21 +0200, "Annette" <[email protected]> in epiphoric fashion, xertzed pozzuolana and rendered this dittology: […]
2014, Jessica Dotta, “Acknowledgments”, in Mark of Distinction (Price of Privilege Trilogy; 2), Carol Stream, I.L.: Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 434:Thank you especially, Anna and Howard Vosburgh. Your help and friendship are invaluable, especially the way you helped me avoid slang in the editing process as we bibbled and xertzed coffee.
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