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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
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
Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025
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
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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
Seen swilling hooch in her pajamas and stuffing herself with week-old discarded cake, Dee anticipated the guys' every insult with dead-eyed clarity.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swill
Noun
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Get an aerial view via a hot-air-balloon ride, or join a hike-and-sip tour to sample the local scenery and flavors.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Oct. 2025
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An employee was observed drinking a beverage at the kitchen from an unapproved cup and placing it on the food prep table between sips.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This American remake of the South Korean drama Il Mare is romantic goo that’s relatively easy to resist, and its ruminations on fate, love, destiny, and luck are all pretty standard for the genre.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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Some stars collapsed to the sea floor, dissolved into piles of goo.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Chief among them is that kids have been gorging on Kit-Kats and Starbursts for decades, on this one day a year.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
7 Oct. 2025
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The bears have been trying to fatten up by gorging on salmon — including at times by only eating the skin, brains and eggs to focus on the most calories — before hibernating for the winter.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC news,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To manage your thirst, try limiting your salt intake, drinking enough water throughout the day, and regulating your bedroom temperature.—
Lauren O'Connor,
Health,
23 Oct. 2025
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With its ever-expanding food and drink scene, Oaxaca de Juárez has rightfully earned its place as one of the world's premiere culinary destinations—so much so that it was named the best city in the world in Travel + Leisure's 2023 World's Best Awards and one of the top 5 cities in Mexico in 2025.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Plaster bandages, the type used in bone-setting casts, go over the glop.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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In the musical film, HUNTR/X faces their biggest threat yet in the form of the Saja Boys, a rival boy band comprised of demons intent on stealing the ladies' fanbase and feasting on their souls.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Oct. 2025
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Granted, most of the league has feasted on the rebuilding Sharks during that time.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Bots argue with bots on social media, and the slop churned out by AI is then regurgitated by different AI.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
18 Oct. 2025
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Videos made with OpenAI's Sora app are flooding TikTok, Instagram Reels and other platforms, making people increasingly familiar — and fed up — with nearly unavoidable synthetic footage being pumped out by what amounts to an artificial intelligence slop machine.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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