Swallow hard
The crossword clue "Swallow hard" is answered by GULP, a 4-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GULP
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GULP answer page.
Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1975. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GULP
Every other clue in this collection answered by GULP, most used first.
- Big swig - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
- [Uh-oh!] - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Nervous swallow - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Big swallow - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Chug-a-lug - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Swallow greedily - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Swallow hurriedly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Hard to find - RARE, used 196 times
- Work hard - TOIL, used 183 times
- Working hard - ATIT, used 149 times
- Sea swallow - TERN, used 107 times
- Hard work - TOIL, used 73 times
- Hard to come by - RARE, used 67 times
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