swill 1 of 2

noun

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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

ˈswil How to pronounce swill (audio)
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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
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
  1. sip
  2. goo
  3. gorge
  4. drink
  5. glop
  6. feast
  7. gulp
  8. slop
Noun
  • State of sip: Many North Texas restaurants still offer cocktails to go.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, different fruits and vegetables will provide different tastes—green apples are tart and fresh, but try celery for an earthy sip or kiwi for tropical flavors.
    — Jillian Dara, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of sip
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
Definition of goo
Verb
  • Thanks to this steady drip of releases, Like a Dragon fans have been virtually gorging themselves on a wealth of content for years.
    — Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Any time an agricultural producer or horse owner or home gardener has a persistent issue with dangerous or destructive animals — skunks denning under a shed, raccoons raiding a chicken coop, bears gorging in a vineyard — Chandler can assist, either with advice or, if necessary, direct intervention.
    — Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of gorge
Verb
  • For example, the Mayo Clinic still recommends drinking cranberry juice as a way to prevent UTIs, while the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases doesn’t.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Peterson has almost nothing in common with, say, Dave Portnoy, another mascot of the bro-sphere, who mostly just wants to be left alone to eat pizza and drink beer by the pool.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of drink
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
Definition of glop
Verb
  • That prompted at least a week’s worth of coverage, because the British press can be relied upon to feast on the lowest-hanging fruits.
    — Rory Smith, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Whether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of feast
Verb
  • Slurp your bev up like a straw or tip the bottle back to gulp it down.
    — Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2025
  • That would have been like the Celtics willingly trading, gulp, Paul Pierce to the Heat at one point.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of gulp
Noun
  • Located within an hour of three major New England mountain resorts (Stratton, Snow, and Okemo), its streamlined decor, sleeping loft, and ceiling fan make for a serene retreat from any future slop action.
    — Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Such catastrophic malfunctions aside, most of the time conifer resin slops over the gash and remains tacky for days afterward.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of slop

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