Definition of swig
: a quantity drunk at one time
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Examples of swig in a Sentence
can I have just a swig of your lemonade to wash down these french fries?
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Cline grabbed a glass of beer and took a swig, police reports say.
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For several months, a woman working at a Minnesota restaurant had been taking swigs from her water bottle only to discover an odd, disconcerting taste — something like urine, the woman told police.
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The Anti-Diet Trendy meal plans may sound like the magical answer to get into your skinny jeans — swallow a pill, swig some juice, eat some kale.
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Her answer was followed by a swig of beer, the officer wrote.
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Landis once attributed a suspicious surge in testosterone on too many swigs of whiskey.
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Before you take a swig from that festive Coca-Cola can, take a good hard look at the design.
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No, Coleman took a swig of pickle juice, straight from the jar.
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Taking a bite is a bit like taking a swig of your favorite bourbon, eating a ripe cherry and munching on a crunchy cookie, somehow all at the same time.
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Origin and Etymology of swig
origin unknown
NEW! Time Traveler
First Known Use: circa 1623
in the meaning defined above
See Words from the same yearExamples of swig in a Sentence
the only way he can stay awake at his night job is by constantly swigging drinks containing caffeine
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As evidenced by Gruden’s recent comments to S.L. Price in Sports Illustrated, his Corona-swigging, visor-wearing personality has only deepened during his lengthy spell as a television commentator.
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Defensive tackle Fletcher Cox danced from locker to locker, swigging Moët straight from the bottle, with a victory cigar tucked behind his ear.
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One at a time, patients swig a cup of methadone passed through an opening from the other side of a protective window.
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For the folks who show up, the event’s not just about scoring points and swigging beer.
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The heroes of the The Thing—led by a J&B scotch-swigging MacReady (Kurt Russell)—spend most of their time trying to take out a crafty, parasitic alien with a flame thrower, then dousing charred carcasses in the Antarctic snow.
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How quickly will the milk-swigging Herbert be back?
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The languid moodiness of True Detective’s first season, mired in the mystic culture and history of rural Louisiana, looked more like lumpy, peyote-swigging fan fiction when the show was rebooted in exurban California a year later.
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On Friday afternoon, a handful of regulars pulled up to the bar of the otherwise vacant restaurant to swig beer and fill the interior with thick plumes of cigarette smoke.
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First Known Use of swig
circa 1650
swig Synonyms
Synonyms
belt (down), drink, gulp, guzzle, hoist, imbibe, knock back, pound (down), quaff, sip, slug (down), slurp, sup, swill, toss (down or off);
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: to drink (something) quickly and in large amounts : to swallow a lot of (a drink)
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