swill
liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
kitchen refuse in general; garbage.
any liquid mess, waste, or refuse; slop.
a deep draught of liquor.
contemptibly worthless utterance or writing; drivel.
to drink greedily or excessively.
to drink (something) greedily or to excess; guzzle.
to feed (animals) with swill: to swill hogs.
Chiefly British. to wash by rinsing or flooding with water.
Origin of swill
1Other words from swill
- swiller, noun
- un·swilled, adjective
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How to use swill in a sentence
Beer-swilling Britain and Spain now boast impressive varietals while America is challenging France with how much wine is consumed.
I suppose I was turned on by meeting men in a higher social league than my beer-swilling peer group.
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We can always count on the wine-swilling hosts for some “mind in the gutter” action.
Her latest role is a small but powerful one, and does plenty to erase any memories of her cosmo-swilling, man-eating alter-ego.
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He could have spent his nights thinking up new business tricks, instead of swilling whiskey.
The Day Time Stopped Moving | Bradner BucknerThink of what every fathead princeling and beer-swilling ritter from here to Basel would say!
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) CrockettHe sees a huge house, all these bottles; us swilling them down; perhaps he's got a starving wife, or consumptive kids.
The Foundations (Fourth Series Plays) | John GalsworthyHe thinks he can use my place to fall back on when he can't go any longer, to fix him up to do some more swilling later on.
Twelve Men | Theodore DreiserHe stood on top of a table and faced his crew of pirates who were sitting about swilling large cups of rocket juice.
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British Dictionary definitions for swill
/ (swɪl) /
to drink large quantities of (liquid, esp alcoholic drink); guzzle
(tr often foll by out) mainly British to drench or rinse in large amounts of water
(tr) to feed swill to (pigs, etc)
wet feed, esp for pigs, consisting of kitchen waste, skimmed milk, etc
garbage or refuse, esp from a kitchen
a deep draught of drink, esp beer
any liquid mess
the act of swilling
Origin of swill
1Derived forms of swill
- swiller, noun
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