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as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess
they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling
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as in to drink
to swallow in liquid form
they gathered in the break room each morning to swill coffee together before the morning meeting
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Recent Examples of swill
Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
Zoo officials swill announce the winning names on November 9.
—Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
In his acceptance speech by video, Michael Hardy — who records as simply Hardy — shotgunned a can of beer, sharing a remote toast to his fellow winners while the music-industry attendees and recipients swilled wine and other drinks from the free bar.
—Neil Pond, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
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Noun
Most people pay little attention to the swill of microscopic bugs inside us.
—Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
Zoo officials swill announce the winning names on November 9.
—Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
Verb
In the main room, people swilled beers and looked at some of the photos from the book, which had been printed and framed.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
In his acceptance speech by video, Michael Hardy — who records as simply Hardy — shotgunned a can of beer, sharing a remote toast to his fellow winners while the music-industry attendees and recipients swilled wine and other drinks from the free bar.
—Neil Pond, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
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Noun
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Belair had a sip of the energy drink during her entrance at SummerSlam 2022.Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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To further feed her peppermint craving, Smith pauses for a sip of mint tea, then tops her pout with a coat of Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask in Candy Cane.Jenny Berg, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
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Slap one of these absorbent, hydrocolloid-rich patches on your zit before bed and wake up to witness the goo drawn out—no popping necessary, U Beauty The Super Hydrator $68 $54 Amazon Got fine lines?Annie Blackman, Allure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Another big thing about the original is the fluorescent colors of the blood and goo.William Earl, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
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Russian unemployment is at an historic low of 2.4 percent while China and, to a lesser extent, India have been gorging themselves on cheap Russian commodities.Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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The trout filled their bellies and their mouths and still continued gorging.David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
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The American Heart Association (AHA) advises against the idea of starting to drink alcohol just to try to prevent heart disease.Peter Burke, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
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Beyond just my daughter, me, and the occasional friend she’s seen drinking from an Owala, Amazon shoppers love the brand, too.Terri Peters, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
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After an hour at 19,000 g’s, cell wall debris packs down as leaden glop at the bottom of a tube.Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
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Unlike most killer whales that swim the world’s oceans, Southern Resident orcas stick together, gathering annually in Puget Sound to feast on salmon during the summer and fall.Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Black chefs and restauranteurs eagerly invite you to their establishments to sit down and feast or grab food to go.Essence, Essence, 6 Dec. 2024
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Now revitalized, Madeline confronts Helen, who has also gulped the elixir, and wild smackdowns and realignments follow.Frank Rizzo, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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With its 33 Raptor engines gulping 40,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and methane fuel per second, the Super Heavy-Starship majestically climbed away to the east over the Gulf of Mexico atop a brilliant plume of white-hot flame and a churning cloud of exhaust.William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Google Image results are full of awful low-quality AI slop instead of the cool and varied artwork that used to appear.Kelsey Piper, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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The strain of slop on Medium tends toward the banal, especially compared with the dadaist flotsam clogging Facebook.Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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