To swallow in large pieces; swallow hastily: often with up or down.To seize upon with greed; appropriate graspingly; capture: often with up or down.Synonyms To devour, etc. (see eat); bolt, gulp.To make the loud noise in the throat peculiar to the turkey-cock.n. The loud rattling noise in the throat made by the turkey-cock: sometimes used of the dissimilar vocal sounds of other fowls.n. In golf, a putt played with such force that it would be carried some distance past the hole if it did not go in, but which does go in.