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guzzler

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    From guzzle + -er.

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    guzzler (plural guzzlers)

    1. Somebody or something which guzzles.
      • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist[1], number 61, retrieved 13 November 2022, 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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