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.
- 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.