MEANING
1. To make a deep, hollow bubbling sound as liquid moves through a narrow opening.
2. To drink a liquid quickly in large swallows.
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Words that belong together
- water glugs
- a glugging bottle
On the page
Water glugged from the jug as she tipped it over the basin.
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Word forms
- Base
- glug
- Past tense
- glugged
- Past participle
- glugged
- Present participle
- glugging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- glug
- Present continuous
- am/is/are glugging
- Present perfect
- have/has glugged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been glugging
- Past
- glugged
- Past continuous
- was/were glugging
- Past perfect
- had glugged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been glugging
- Future
- will glug
- Future continuous
- will be glugging
- Future perfect
- will have glugged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been glugging
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Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: glug; glugs; glugged; glugged; glugging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: glugs.
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