字詞詮 On Language: chug

We're sitting in a conference room and Ledford, just back from Tokyo, where he spends half the year, is chugging lime Diet Cokes.

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Pronunciation: /tʃʌɡ/

(also chugalug)North American informal

[WITH OBJECT]

Consume (a drink) in large gulps without pausing:she chugged a glass of cola

Vinny brought the plastic cup of beer to his mouth and tipped his head back, gulping nervously, chugging the entire beverage in just a few slurps.
Unfortunately, I hate black jelly beans, and I thought it tasted nasty, so I wound up chugging my drinks, which is really not the point of absinthe.
It made recycling very easy to find, and if you wanted to just stand there and chug your drink, it was very easy to then recycle the bottle.
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A large gulp of a drink:Chris took a long chug of his beer

1950s: imitative.