swig
IPA: swˈɪg
noun
- (obsolete) Drink, liquor.
- (by extension) A long draught from a drink.
- (obsolete) A person who drinks deeply.
- (nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
- Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
verb
- To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
- (obsolete) To suck.
- (nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.
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Examples of "swig" in Sentences
- Then swig half the bottle in one go.
- Lorne's swig and Hallelujah were very well done.
- The old man took a swig from the flask and smiled.
- On the court Gorgo would swig Cokes through a match...
- He grabbed the soda can and took a big swig of it with joy.
- Student would have preferred to swig at her desk, of course.
- He is an alcoholic homeless man and is constantly swigging liquor.
- The program was funded by the Melvin Swig family over twenty years ago.
- People saw him swigging away in the hallway before he entered the hall.
- A navvy on right, swigging beer, emphasises their rejection of teetotalism.
- He acquires a blond sycophant named Swig, and his ability is yet to be found.
- I scuttle over to where she is sitting and take a swig from the beer can she's been clutching.
- Those questions always seem to crop up just as you are about to take a swig from a boiling cup of tea or squirting ketchup and other hazardous operations …
- Finally, he walked back to his desk, opened another drawer, and popping several of the tablets into his mouth, swallowed them with a swig from a silver flask.
- Sure, from time to time, I mention on here that I'm a recovering alcoholic, that five years and a few months ago I took a final swig from a bottle of warm Budweiser and haven't had another sip of alcohol since.
- His two female companions, Zombie and Eeyore, swig from a bottle of pricey Tejava tea and pass a smoke while lying on a blanket surrounded by a fortress of backpacks, bedrolls and scrawled signs asking for money.
- Their plan was to change into rough shoes after supper and walk on the shingle between the sea and the lagoon known as the fleet, and if they had not finished the wine, they would take that along, and swig from the bottle like gentlemen of the road. next »
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