The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word BOLT , but the solution may also be EAT which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Gulp down crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
BOLT | 26 % | 4 |
CHUG | 19 % | 4 |
EAT | 15 % | 3 |
INGEST | 11 % | 6 |
WOLF | 11 % | 4 |
SWIG | 7 % | 4 |
SNARF | 4 % | 5 |
INHALE | 4 % | 6 |
QUAFF | 4 % | 5 |
Why may INGEST be the right solution?
The word "ingest" means to swallow or gulp down food or drink. Therefore, "ingest" is the right answer to the clue "gulp down."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gulp down
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- binge eat
- undereat
- overchew
- gourmandise
- overconsume
- overgorge
- overeat
- yuck
- overbrowse
- oversup
- comfort-eat
- gin up
Crossword Answer definitions
BOLT noun- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To escape.
- Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result BOLT
- Cloth roll
- Nut's partner
- Cloth unit
- Wolf down
- Fabric measurement
- Make tracks
- Wolf (down)
- Run for it
- Neck ornament for Karloff
- Hightail it
More clues leading to the result CHUG
- Sound like an engine
- Down quickly
- Engine sound
- Guzzle
- Empty a glass fast
- Drink really quickly
- Big swig
- Drink down
- Big belt
- Gulp without a pause
More clues leading to the result EAT
- Absorb, as a loss
- "Mangia!"
- Bolt down
- Chow down
- Consume
- Have a nosh
- Lunch
- Scarf down
- Take nourishment
- Dine out
More clues leading to the result INGEST
More clues leading to the result WOLF
- Don Juan
- Womanizer
- Peter of the J. Geils Band
- Real howler
- Lobo
- Snarf down
- Grandmother impersonator?
- Little Pigs' foe
- Bored shepherd boy's cry in a fable
- "White Fang" figure
More clues leading to the result SWIG
More clues leading to the result SNARF
- Eat greedily
- Wolf (down)
- Devour, with "up" or "down"
- Devour greedily, with "down"
- Devour, slangily, with "down"
- Gobble (down)
- Gobble (up)
- Devour, with "down"
- 24-Across greedily
- Eat (up)
More clues leading to the result INHALE
- Breathe in
- Get a lungful
- Take a breath
- Consume quickly
- Fill the lungs
- Scarcely savor
- Have a smoke
- Take a hit?
- Toke
- Prepare to blow