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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swig
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Jack swigged the last of his coffee and left.
▪ Jack swigged the last of his tea and got up to leave.
▪ The old man wandered along, swigging occasionally from a whiskey bottle.
▪ The soldiers took it in turns to swig vodka.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I ain't going into no detox clinic, swigging bloody methadone.
▪ Fogarty finished his double rye and Jack swigged the last of his coffee royal, and they went out the back door.
▪ He uncorked one of the bottles on the altar and swigged from it.
▪ I drive back to the hotel with Lucker swigging at a litre bottle of vodka beside me.
▪ Mrs Morgan is caught shoplifting and starts swigging back pills with glasses of wine.
▪ Ratagan swigged at his beer and swallowed gratefully.
▪ Sitting on my unused bed, swigging room service orange juice, I switch on the Rosenbloom show.
▪ So I doubt if our hero would have been good for many heroics after swigging that.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swig

Swig \Swig\, v. t. [Cf. D. zwelgen to swallow, E. swallow, v.t.]

  1. To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.

  2. To suck. [Obs. or Archaic]

    The lambkins swig the teat.
    --Creech.

Swig

Swig \Swig\, n.

  1. A long draught. [Colloq.]
    --Marryat.

  2. (Naut.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.

  3. A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

Swig

Swig \Swig\, v. t. [Cf. Prov. E. swig to leak out, AS. sw[=i]jian to be silent, sw[=i]can to evade, escape.]

  1. To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off. [Prov. Eng.]

  2. (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
swig

1650s, from swig (n.). Related: Swigged; swigging.

swig

1540s, "a drink, liquor," later "big or hearty drink of liquor" (1620s), of unknown origin.

Wiktionary
swig

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
swig
  1. n. a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp" [syn: gulp, draft, draught]

  2. v. strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out" [syn: slug, slog]

  3. to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers" [syn: gulp, quaff]

  4. [also: swigging, swigged]

Wikipedia
Swig

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
People
  • 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.