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as in sip
the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time took his daily swill of the foul-tasting medicine

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as in goo
a thick semiliquid substance (as food) that is unattractive I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it

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verb

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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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Recent Examples of swill
Noun
Hartley connected his temperance and milk crusades in An Essay on Milk from 1842, arguing that milk produced in cities was impure not just because of its adulteration by contaminants like formaldehyde, but also because of its sourcing from urban swill sheds. Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024 Near the cap, each jug had a single loop big enough for one finger to slip in—not ergonomic, but perfect for tilting it up to your mouth for a quick swill. Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 20 Dec. 2023
Verb
Spies might swill martinis in the movies, but alcohol impairs alertness and judgment and could put you at risk, especially in an unfamiliar country. Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 June 2025 Otherwise, enjoy sipping and swilling local wine or dine at Harrimans Grill, the onsite restaurant that serves classic steakhouse dishes made from regional ingredients. Karla Pope, Architectural Digest, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for swill
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swill
Noun
  • Plus, Howl at the Moon will offer Swiftie sips, such as the Lucky One Miss Peaches Seltzer, Through the Orange Door jello shots, a TS12 shot, and That’s Showbiz cocktails and drink buckets.
    Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Stop by the tasting room for sips of North Carolina vintages.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The black goo helped bring about the end of the Engineers; the xenomorphs, the end of various colonist human groups; and now the Lost Boys are wrenching the world from their adult overlords.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Once the goo is on her, ideally, Ellen will just chill until the substance cures or whatever the heck it’s supposed to do.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The cafeteria caved, and students were once again able to gorge on cookies at the bargain price of 25 cents apiece.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • People are talking about the storm while the gulls gorge on bread and peck at chicken bones.
    Deborah Levy, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Plus, Howl at the Moon will offer Swiftie sips, such as the Lucky One Miss Peaches Seltzer, Through the Orange Door jello shots, a TS12 shot, and That’s Showbiz cocktails and drink buckets.
    Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Loveland resident had just completed a school drop-off and was bringing a Caramel Dutch Bros drink home to his wife.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even as dusk descended, people lined up to gulp from public fountains (another blessing), to fill their water bottles, or to splash their bare skin.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
  • Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Users voted each day to decide which brown bears at Katmai National Park — who are busy feasting on salmon to pack on pounds for winter — deserve the top spot.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • No country feasted on the H-1B quite like India.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The slop has now sustained through two weeks.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The results are technically impressive but there is also a lot of slop and brainrot content, according to Axios and the NYT.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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