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Drinking as a competitive sport, judged entirely on throat bravery.
means To drink something quickly and continuously without stopping, usually in one long gulping go.
from Pure sound-magic: 'chug' is imitative, echoing the rhythmic gulping noise of liquid glugging down a throat — the same instinct that gave us 'chug-chug' for a steam engine's rhythmic puffing. The drinking sense rode that same echo, borrowing the word because necking a drink in one go sounds, and feels, exactly like machinery working hard.
- the motion
- tilt, swallow, repeat, regret nothing publicly
- physics problem
- gravity helps, epiglottis timing does not
- etymology
- imitates the sound, like glug's try-hard cousin
- social proof
- always requires an audience chanting your name