swilled; swilling; swills
2
: to drink great drafts of : guzzle
swill beer
3
: to feed (an animal, such as a pig) with swill
swiller
noun
Examples of swill in a Sentence
Verb
She watched the water swill around in the bucket.
He swilled the water around in the pot.
He swilled the floor with buckets of water.
Noun
took his daily swill of the foul-tasting medicine
I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it.
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Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The designers threw a party themselves, filling the ballroom at Palazzo Visconti di Modrone with a spiffy crowd of mannequins swilling Champagne, chatting at the dinner table and generally whooping it up.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 June 2025
The muzzle of a hunting rifle poked out from the back seat, and a water bottle on the front console was filled with the brown swill of chewing tobacco.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Fighting off hordes of alien monstrosities AND digging for rare minerals in outer space as a crew of beer-swilling, ass kicking space dwarves?
—Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
The designers threw a party themselves, filling the ballroom at Palazzo Visconti di Modrone with a spiffy crowd of mannequins swilling Champagne, chatting at the dinner table and generally whooping it up.
—Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
With each new building taking care of its own runoff, and these two huge tanks behind us picking up the slack, the Gowanus Canal would be spared the putrid mix of sewage, rainwater, and gutter swill that pours into it whenever the city’s combined sewer system is overwhelmed.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 June 2025
The muzzle of a hunting rifle poked out from the back seat, and a water bottle on the front console was filled with the brown swill of chewing tobacco.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swill. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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swill
2 of 2 noun1
: food for animals (as pigs) made from scraps of food mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
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