swilling
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈswɪlɪŋ/
- Informal
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- The door swings open, and a beer-swilling middle-aged man looks dully out at Quintana, who looks hesitantly up.
- beer-swilling
- booze-swilling
- vodka-swilling
Examples
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The party was filled with swilling guests, laughing and sharing stories over their drinks.
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The bag contained an empty Mad Dog 20/20 wine bottle, left there the night before by Elmer Swilling, the town wino and dogcatcher.
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I look forward to hearing all the backslapping merriment, and the swilling of Veuve Clicquot.
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Raymond is a sports-obsessed, beer-swilling actor, and Donnie is a more effete literature professor.
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Idiocracy, for those of you who don't know, is a 2006 comedy starring Luke Wilson as Joe Bauers, a member of the US Army who is sent to a future where everyone is a TV-watching, beer-swilling grade-A moron.
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After a long day, he enjoyed swilling cold beer with his friends at the bar.
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She was swilling cocktails at the beach, celebrating the start of the summer break.
Synonyms
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1.0
To put water or other liquids into your mouth and swallow
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6.5
Drinking a large amount of liquid very quickly
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8.0
Drinking a lot of alcohol in a way that harms health
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3.3
An act of swallowing food or drink quickly, often in large mouthfuls
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6.8
Drinking liquids, for example water or alcohol
A time when someone drinks a lot of alcohol without stopping
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Etymology
The word swilling comes from the old English word swill, which meant 'wash' or the dirty liquid 'slop' used to feed animals, and this sense shifted to pouring or drinking large amounts of liquid. A helpful way to remember it is to think of it like an extreme swallow — taking down lots of liquid fast, so swilling means drinking greedily or too much.