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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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Think clean, refreshing sips rather than sugary sweetness.Noel Burgess, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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In addition to retail, guests can look forward to free sips at the Tasting Bar and customizing their finds at the Gift Bar.Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2025
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There were photorealistic renderings of male and female heads and bodies festooned with strange confetti-like colored goo.John Werner, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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My husband, Dave, still wears the shirt with his workplace nickname – The Spam King – printed in the iconic Spam lettering, nestled in the yellow goo from the can.Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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Two months after the Uni gorged themselves on Udon noodles every day, the edible part of Uni grew from 4.8% to 17.5% on average, far above the marketable percentage of 10%.Akiko Katayama, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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When asparagus came in the spring, people gorged on them, and the running of salmon was cause for feasting––all of it as fresh as the morning it was collected or caught.John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Neighbors called the residents of the apartment where Portillo was found dead problem tenants who were known to drink excessively and act rowdy.Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
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Several communities have advised residents not to drink tap water. Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 2h Don’t be glum about the long, cold winter.Bluesky Social, Bluesky Social, 15 Jan. 2025
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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
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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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Dense residential neighborhoods and freeways sit directly beneath towering bluffs populated by mountain lions, which occasionally hop the fences of backyard swimming pools to feast on domestic cats and dogs.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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There, the bird joined bald eagles on nearby rocky cliffs to feast on spawning capelin, a type of small, oily fish that lives in northern waters.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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As stock, a snakehead of an air intake protrudes from the right side of the motor, ready to gulp down oxygen for use in the Milwaukee-Eight’s twin furnaces.William Roberson, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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For each correct answer, gulp a nip of Dr. McGillicuddy’s Wild Grape.Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 July 2024
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This isn’t to suggest that critics should be more permissive toward Hollywood slop at a moment when mediocrity is more pernicious than ever.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
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Read: The slop candidate Trump came of age as a public figure in the 1980s, long before irony was alleged to have died—a time, on the contrary, when cynicism had become cultural currency.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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