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Definition of Gulpers
1. gulper [n] - See also: gulper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulpers
Literary usage of Gulpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. England: With Sketches of Society in the Metropolis by James Fenimore Cooper (1837)
"... and altogether a most vulgar substitute for the egg-cup, and one quite unfit
to be seen anywhere but in a steam-boat or a tavern frequented by gulpers. ..."
2. Gleanings in Europe by James Fenimore Cooper (1837)
"... and altogether a most vulgar substitute for the egg-cup, and one quite unfit
to be seen any where but in a steamboat, or a tavern frequented by gulpers. ..."
3. Problems in Pan Americanism by Samuel Guy Inman (1921)
"... the enemies of all idealisms, furiously enamored of the dollar, insatiable
gulpers of whiskey and sausages—swift, overwhelming, fierce, clownish. ..."
4. People's Banks: A Record of Social and Economic Success by Henry William Wolff (1896)
"... are popularly known as " lub- bucks," which means "gulpers" or "devourers,"
and seems to be the Indian equivalent for " Shylock. ..."
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