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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
David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 May 2025
The boss wants you in traffic and swilling stale office coffee again.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 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
This was two days after the orders were sent, so there was quite a bit of pencil chewing, nail biting, and coffee swilling in the meantime.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 18 May 2025
The boss wants you in traffic and swilling stale office coffee again.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swill
Noun
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Munch on specialty sandwiches and wraps and sip cocktails at Sugarloaf Island Deli and Yellowfin Pub.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
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So my earliest memory is having a sip of wine at a dinner table.—
Adam Morganstern,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The only thing that had to be digitalized, was some of the melting goo and some of the flies jumping down.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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In one, the kitten sits by a backyard swimming pool full of rainbow goo.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
28 Aug. 2025
Verb
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People are talking about the storm while the gulls gorge on bread and peck at chicken bones.—
Deborah Levy,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 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
Verb
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Anyone who’s drinking hot pumpkin spice lattes in a chunky sweater may need to rein it in for a little while.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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Delicious now, this will drink well for the next 4-6 years.—
Tom Hyland,
Forbes.com,
11 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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Today, loyal fans make the drive up Left Hand Canyon to jam out to bluegrass, folk, Americana and other genres while feasting on hearty fare.—
Sarah Kuta,
Denver Post,
8 Sep. 2025
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Crosby should feast in his matchups against rookie left tackle Will Campbell and aging right tackle Morgan Moses.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
Noun
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Every season opener features some slop and engenders more questions than answers.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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These are examples of AI slop, low- to mid-quality content – video, images, audio, text or a mix – created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy.—
Adam Nemeroff,
The Conversation,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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