swill 1 of 2

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as in sip
the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time took his daily swill of the foul-tasting medicine

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as in goo
a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it

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swill

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verb

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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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Recent Examples of swill
Noun
Clearing forests for farmland pushed a bat species to the forest edge, where pig farmers had set up; bats settled in trees over the pig pens and contaminated the swill the pigs were fed; pigs got sick and were culled; humans picked up the infection from their pigs, then died. Maryn McKenna, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020 Most people pay little attention to the swill of microscopic bugs inside us. Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
Verb
The dynamic was palpable last week, as Vladimir V. Putin casually announced plans to run for six more years as president of Russia, swilling champagne and bragging about the increasing competence of Russia’s military. Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023 Donning a cropped black wig and always swilling a martini, Johansson fit perfectly in Anderson’s Americana milieu. Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for swill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swill
Noun
  • During another work trip, the source alleges, Gatto insisted his employees come back to his room to drink, despite publicly claiming to be sober in interviews (and frequently boasting that he’s never had a sip of alcohol before, per the source).
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Try a sip from this cup This April Fool's Day prank will need to be prepared the night before.
    Kimberly Stoney, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The plastic — salvaged from a waste site and beach cleanup in Cape Town — is melted down into a black goo and turned into sculptures, Olivier tells Axios.
    Martin Vassolo, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
  • At Gropius Bau, black goo dripped from a handblown hourglass counting down specifically to the end of the exhibition.
    Emily McDermott, ARTnews.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • May brings a chance to celebrate the 150 cultures represented in the city with celebrations like Japan Fes (gorge yourself on everything from yakisoba to matcha sweets).
    Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Tykwer was one of a new generation of film geek obsessives, autodidacts who gorged themselves on midnight screenings, VHS tapes and repertory theaters, whose movies would mash up the tropes and obsessions of cinema history with the fresh aesthetics of video games and music videos.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Tonya drinks too much and is blacked out most of the time.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Currently, more than 200 million Americans, or about 75% of the population, drink fluoridated water.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His breakthrough short movie-sculpture-painting, Men Getting Sick (1960), involved casting his own head in plaster, and applying more of the glop to the screen.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
Verb
  • But while the national organization sits on $2.5 billion in net assets, its clinics are deliberately feasting on crumbs.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Ahead, feast your eyes on 105 fancy names from a myriad of cultures and eras.
    Lydia Wang, Parents, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Papa uses this moment to gulp the wine in Elijah's cup.
    Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Slurp your bev up like a straw or tip the bottle back to gulp it down.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But maybe the greatest sin of all of this is how, as social media has been flooded by pure slop masquerading as Ghibli work, one of the company’s greatest and most eternally relevant films has returned to theaters now, more beautiful and brilliant than ever.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Notes on Heart and Mind Sixties Hollywood ushered in a tidal wave of commercial romantic slop, and now bad movies are more popular than good books.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025

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