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as in to gorge
to eat greedily or to excess
they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling
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as in to drink
to swallow in liquid form
they gathered in the break room each morning to swill coffee together before the morning meeting
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Recent Examples of swill
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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
Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Editors and influencers piled into the train-carriage narrow Ojii restaurant on the Left Bank, swilling lychee martinis and Champagne before settling in for rounds of wagyu beef, tuna tartare, tempura and — of course — sushi.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Lots of mud, mixed with blood and guts, because what’s Westeros if not a queasy swill of muck and bodily fluids?
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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
Verb
Vicky Dawson is loopy and judgmental as Becca’s wine-swilling mom Nat.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
Editors and influencers piled into the train-carriage narrow Ojii restaurant on the Left Bank, swilling lychee martinis and Champagne before settling in for rounds of wagyu beef, tuna tartare, tempura and — of course — sushi.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 18 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swill
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From fluffy pies and make-ahead cheesecake bars to standout pork dishes and alcohol-free sips, BHG readers can't get enough of these citrusy dishes.—
Lizzy Briskin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 May 2026
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More sips allow some sherry influence to rise up, and one can’t help but wonder about the exact cask pedigree used to finish that 4 year-old Jim Beam portion.—
David Thomas Tao,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Solutions might require Gordon’s goo-gun cannon to jam up gears, or Batgirl's hacking Batarang, for example.—
Gabriel Zamora,
PC Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Chewy coconut, crunchy cashew crumbs, lots of caramel goo interspersed with chocolate goo.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Raiders gorged in a different way, blowing the center market out of the water with a massive, $27 million per year contract for Baltimore’s Tyler Linderbaum and rocketing toward the top of the league in money spent.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
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Once in Dun, Mathilda gorges herself on strange delicacies while assembling disparate pieces of Hermia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Mar. 2026
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As the two men drink their first soda for nearly a year and wistfully speak of clean clothes, another first-person view drone is heard overhead in the city of Kramatorsk, sending locals scattering.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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This is a time when TCM has never been more popular, with practices including acupuncture, as well as cupping, herbal medicine, and other somatic therapies (or something as simple as drinking warm water) going mainstream in the Western world.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
29 May 2026
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It’s not made explicitly clear if these seemingly sympathetic kids are actually his worst bullies, but Machado-Graner’s eyes, lip twitch, and throat gulp in this short sequence tell a whole story in themselves.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
20 May 2026
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The nervous gulp that sight triggered.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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It was covered in a tantalizing explosion of tubes and dupes, gloops and glops: setting sprays, concealer, eyeshadow palettes, Unicorn Snot body glitter.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Trump’s taste is the stuff of legend, a sort of grotesque of the conventional, with his gold baroque glop and fake tans and bright-red neckties—everything gesturing toward high-end elegance but always wrong somehow, always slightly too much.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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On Monday, Siri feasted on an 86-mph cutter from the Rockies’ Kyle Freeland and sent it toward the team bullpens in left field.—
Doug Padilla,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026
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Smallmouth bass already feast on humpback chub in the river’s upper section, where agencies spend millions of dollars annually to keep the intruders in check.—
Dorany Pineda,
Fortune,
27 May 2026
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Look, most of the time social media is just an amalgamation of AI slop, influencers begging for attention and people fighting over nonsense.—
Amber Harding OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Instead, candidates should think about what a recruiter actually wants to hear, and write a heartfelt, human message that can break through the AI slop.—
Kristin Stoller,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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