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gas-guzzler noun a motor vehicle that demands immoderate quantities of fuel, either by design or in consequence of a driver’s excessive demands US, 1973- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 155, 1981
- Sandy-haired yobbos with a big gas guzzler throbbing in the car park. — Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, p. 115, 1983
- They continued churning out heavy, often unreliable gaz-guzzlers (an Americanism of 1969) in overmanned factories that were massively uncompetitive compared with the lean manufacturing techniques of the Japanese. — Bill Bryson, Made in America, p. 346, 1994
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