gurgitator

Back-formation from regurgitate; see -or.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɜː.dʒɪ.teɪ.tə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɝ.d͡ʒə.teɪ.tɚ/

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gurgitator (plural gurgitators)

1. A competitive eater.
   • 2006, Ryan Nerz, Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit, page 11:

     He described one of his favorite "gurgitators," Eric "Badlands" Booker...who trained by meditating and eating huge portions of cabbage.

   • 2006, Jason Fagone, Horsemen of the Esophagus, page 210:

     ...blue-collar gurgitators are a dime a dozen, but white-collar gurgitators are far rarer, ...

   • 2008, Frederick Kaufman, A Short History of the American Stomach, page 94:

     But just as the pioneer Daniel Boone abandoned domesticated life to settle ever newer territories, the gurgitator Dale Boone could not deny the imperatives of his roving metabolism.

• gurgitation, gurgitate