Swill (Verb)
Meaning 1
Drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink).
Classification
Verbs of eating and drinking.
Examples
- The students spent the entire evening swilling beer at the campus bar.
- Over the course of the party, the group managed to swill an entire keg of ale.
- He tends to swill wine excessively whenever he visits his in-laws for holidays.
- Many locals would gather to swill cheap whiskey and exchange stories.
- On New Year's Eve, people would typically gather at the club to swill champagne and celebrate.
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Meaning 2
Feed pigs.
Classification
Verbs of eating and drinking.
Examples
- The pigs will swill the leftover vegetables in the trough with gusto.
- Farmers often need to swill grain to give it to their pigs as nutritious feed.
- The farmer's wife helped swill the food for the pigs in the backyard pen.
- She gathered some vegetables and went to swill them into the trough for the pigs.
- The children watched as their grandfather carefully began to swill the slops for the hungry pigs.