swilled; swilling; swills
2
: to drink great drafts of : guzzle
swill beer
3
: to feed (an animal, such as a pig) with swill
swiller
noun
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Examples of swill in a Sentence
Verb
She watched the water swill around in the bucket.
He swilled the water around in the pot.
He swilled the floor with buckets of water.
Noun
took his daily swill of the foul-tasting medicine
I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it.
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Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
To the backdrop of a playlist brimming with Brandy, Aaliyah, Monica, and Mariah, attendees swilled around outside the cinema room at NeueHouse for a pre-show cocktail and snack.
—Freya Drohan, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
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Verb
Many foods and drinks are salty, including—as Tremble noted—the cups of Gatorade that those guys are always swilling in the dugout.
—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
To the backdrop of a playlist brimming with Brandy, Aaliyah, Monica, and Mariah, attendees swilled around outside the cinema room at NeueHouse for a pre-show cocktail and snack.
—Freya Drohan, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2024
Noun
How the temperature and timing of the pour can be the difference between a sublime cup of caffeinated goodness or diner-level swill.
—Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swill. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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swill
2 of 2 noun1
: food for animals (as pigs) made from scraps of food mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
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