1
as in gorging
to eat greedily or to excess
they can spend hours at the pub, drinking, chatting, and swilling
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as in sipping
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 swilling
Fighting off hordes of alien monstrosities AND digging for rare minerals in outer space as a crew of beer-swilling, ass kicking space dwarves?
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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
Dale Soules gives a hilarious, scene-stealing performance as the beer-swilling mom.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
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
Dale Soules gives a hilarious, scene-stealing performance as the beer-swilling mom.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swilling
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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Scheming girlfriends, questionable business partners, a fleet of lawyers and consultants gorging themselves on fees and a whole lot of other jockeying around Sumner Redstone’s fortune and his business empire.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
10 Aug. 2025
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Rey laughed and left the deck on the table, sipping on his Kola Champagne.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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All the Phillies players are left with is the memory of watching the Dodgers’ celebration before sipping beers as the sadness settled.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Jacksonville is feasting on an unsustainable amount of defensive takeaways.—
Greg Cote
October 9,
Miami Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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But in previous work, scientists analyzing the DNA found in bat poop had been surprised to find evidence of greater noctules feasting on songbirds—which are much larger than insects—during spring and fall migrations, when birds are active at night instead of during the day.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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For Slingerland, drinking alcohol and getting drunk are important to human well-being and complex societies.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
15 Oct. 2025
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One of the passengers had shown Matney a cell phone video in which everyone on the boat was drinking and Paul was steering the boat.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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One night Icarius got all his friends together for a wine-tasting party that quickly got out of hand and turned into a wine-gulping party.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
7 Sep. 2025
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The pressure is always on the taker, the player standing, gulping, trying desperately not to unload their lunch onto the turf, preparing to do something theoretically simple — kick the ball into the net from 12 yards with only one opponent able to stop them.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Swilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swilling. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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