glut
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- n the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- v overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- v supply with an excess of
- There was so much of glut of onion in the market that the farmers were saying that the onions were making them cry both literally as well as figuratively.
- As every publisher knows or thinks he knows, books sell poorly in the summertime, so new books are held off the market until Labor Day, then dumped into bookstores in a glut.
- Flushed with embarrassment, the War Food Administration found itself confronted with an unmanageable glut of potatoes and eggs.