gas guzzling
Adjective
Meaning
gas guzzling (comparative more gas guzzling, superlative most gas guzzling)
(informal) Of a vehicle: that consumes a large amount of fuel.
gas-guzzling
Alternative form of gas guzzling.
Alternative names
gas-guzzling
Examples
We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.
A civilian twist on the iconic military Humvee, the Hummer was the poster child of a gas-guzzling era.
But plug-in registrations in the United States fell in 2015, and the market share of electric-only vehicles declined further to 0.37 percent in 2016, as cheap fuel drove demand for gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks.
Jeep has yet to turn to hybrid power or electrification for any of its vehicles in the UK, the majority of which could be seen as "gas-guzzling" 4x4s, so the company's plans for a quick turnaround are welcome.
Some in the public believe that helping the North American automakers -- who have stuck with large, gas-guzzling products such as pickup trucks -- would be throwing good money after bad.
The typical argument one hears is, “What about the poor guy with the gas-guzzling 1980 Chevy car, who has no other way to get to work?”