Crossword clues for swig
swig
- Big belt
- Drink heartily
- Big drink
- Shot of liquor
- Short drink
- Hearty swallow
- Healthy drink
- Long drink of water
- Long drink
- Big drink of water
- Western saloon action
- Shot from a hip flask
- Moonshine mouthful
- Large gulp
- Greedy gulp
- Drink in gulps
- Drink deeply
- Deep draft
- Belt from a flask
- Way more than a sip
- Toss back
- Powerful gulp
- Mouthful of drink
- Mouthful of brew
- Mouthful of beer
- Mouthful from a flask
- Large draft
- Jug chug
- Imbibe with gusto
- Healthy swallow
- Guzzler's gulp
- Gulp relative
- Gulp of liquid
- Gulp kin
- Drink out of a paper bag, perhaps
- Drink in long drafts
- Drink from the bottle
- Big nip
- Big gulp of liquid
- Big gulp of beer
- Big gulp from a flask
- Big gulp from a bottle
- Big chug of a beverage
- Big chug from a bottle
- Draft at a bar
- Gulp down
- Take a shot?
- Mouthful of moonshine
- Small belt
- Gulp of liquor
- Big gulp of liquor
- Drink from a flask
- More than a nip
- Deep drink
- Gulp from a bottle
- More than a sip
- Drink, as from a bottle
- Great gulp
- Deep draft of liquor
- Big swallow
- Giant gulp, as from a bottle
- Gulp from a flask
- A large and hurried swallow
- Belt of booze
- Long liquid gulp
- Large swallow
- Large quaff
- Long draft
- Gulp of gin
- Draught
- Hearty gulp
- Chug-a-lug
- Gulp at the bar
- Barfly's gulp
- Hefty swallow
- Son needs head covering in strong draught
- Son given rebuke is down
- Large draught
- Large draught of drink
- Drink spirits initially, something that goes to the head
- Drink in large draughts
- Drink hurriedly
- Quick drink
- Hearty drink from a flask
- Swallow greedily
- Sip from a flask
- Quick quaff
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swig \Swig\, v. t. [Cf. D. zwelgen to swallow, E. swallow, v.t.]
To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
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To suck. [Obs. or Archaic]
The lambkins swig the teat.
--Creech.
Swig \Swig\, n.
A long draught. [Colloq.]
--Marryat.(Naut.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
Swig \Swig\, v. t. [Cf. Prov. E. swig to leak out, AS. sw[=i]jian to be silent, sw[=i]can to evade, escape.]
To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]
(Naut.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from swig (n.). Related: Swigged; swigging.
1540s, "a drink, liquor," later "big or hearty drink of liquor" (1620s), of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A long draught from a drink. 2 (context nautical English) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel. 3 Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc. vb. 1 To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff. 2 (context obsolete English) To suck. 3 (context nautical English) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line (also: ''sweating'')
WordNet
n. a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp" [syn: gulp, draft, draught]
v. strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" [syn: slug, slog]
to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers" [syn: gulp, quaff]
Wikipedia
Swig may refer to:
- SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator), an open source software tool
- Swig Judaic Studies Program program at the University of San Francisco
- Melvin M. Swig (1917–1993) American real estate developer and philanthropist
- Charlotte Smith Mailliard Swig (b. 1934) American heiress and socialite
Usage examples of "swig".
Lawson chewed a piece of adobo and washed this down with a swig of the vaguely bitter Cruz del Campo beer.
Sickened by the carnage, he turned away, taking a swig from his flask of aquavit to try to steady his stomach.
Mac took a swig of bleer, lifted his eyepatch, and rubbed a nasty scar where an eye had been.
The Clueless Crew continued flipping through the magazine, taking swigs from their Diet Cokes and passing one-word judgments on the images on each page.
He swigged the stinging mouthwash they had on the shelf by the toilet and did his business while Dibs caught him up from behind and finished the hooks on his left side.
She picked up the little, soft Golden Retriever with her free hand and studied it closely, swigging a hefty champagne guzzle at the same time.
Moving slowly and ostentatiously, the man took a fresh bottle from the bag, opened it, took a swig himself and walked toward the trilimb, holding the bottle before him.
The Finns, undeterred by the heavy seas, were swigging back Koff beer, or at least trying to.
I was carefully manoeuvring myself around a red-necked raver in a rabbit-fish ragout, when I spotted the sweetmeat known as Sarah standing soberly by the sound system, swigging Sauternes and savouring a sauerkraut sandwich.
He had wother swig of the champagne and put the cigar back in his mouth and puffed on it and shifted in his seat and folded his hands on his small belly.
The man took a swig of beer and then drew a meaty fist across his damp lips.
While Sornnn settled himself on a carpet, Minnum sighed and took another swig of wine, extradeep this time, to prepare him for the tale.
He unshouldered his rucksack and took a swig of water, rolling it about in his mouth to enjoy it as much as possible before swallowing.
I put the binos down and had a swig of Coke, which was now warm and horrible, like the weather.
But the piercing scent of bitterroot filled his nostrils, and he took a full-mouth swig.