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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
Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
Zoo officials swill announce the winning names on November 9.
—Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
In his acceptance speech by video, Michael Hardy — who records as simply Hardy — shotgunned a can of beer, sharing a remote toast to his fellow winners while the music-industry attendees and recipients swilled wine and other drinks from the free bar.
—Neil Pond, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
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Noun
Most people pay little attention to the swill of microscopic bugs inside us.
—Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
Zoo officials swill announce the winning names on November 9.
—Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 6 Nov. 2022
Verb
In the main room, people swilled beers and looked at some of the photos from the book, which had been printed and framed.
—Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
In his acceptance speech by video, Michael Hardy — who records as simply Hardy — shotgunned a can of beer, sharing a remote toast to his fellow winners while the music-industry attendees and recipients swilled wine and other drinks from the free bar.
—Neil Pond, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
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Noun
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Ingredients: 1 part Lo-Fi Gentian Amaro 1 part Mezcal Directions: Build over ice in a rocks glass and lightly stir to mix, creating a smoky, intriguing sip.Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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In another shot the man opens a laptop, types away, and then takes a sip of what looks like whiskey.Joseph Cox, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2024
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These handy, reusable linen bags are designed to keep veggies and leafy greens crisp for longer and to prevent them from dissolving into brownish-green smears of goo in a plastic bag.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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First, this buy window goes well beyond a dip in the price of the goo.Brett Owens, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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If necessary, vampire bats can gorge and consume four times their body weight in liquid.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Cinema operators need patrons to gorge on film offerings to salvage a lackluster year at the movies.Variety, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Madrid: Bar And Restaurant Mecca This year’s glitzy gala was held in Madrid–a city famed for its exciting food and drink culture and superb nightlife–bringing bartenders, cocktail aficionados and drinks media in their thousands to the Spanish capital.Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Ten times as many people, meanwhile, reported drinking alcohol daily or almost daily.Marin Cogan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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After an hour at 19,000 g’s, cell wall debris packs down as leaden glop at the bottom of a tube.Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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But mostly, Cronenberg jacks up his own career-long obsessions with glop and grunge and decay to fever pitch.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
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Enjoy bottles of wine at 50% off while feasting on salads, sandwiches or flatbreads.Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
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After feasting on the Titans last week, the Lions take on the division-rival Green Bay Packers on Sunday.Joe Guillen, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
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The three of them confronting the guy — Chet, is pretty hilarious, and Paul successfully scares him into gulping in fear.Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
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Indeed, wine is a fundamentally a convivial beverage; it is not meant to be chugged, slammed, or gulped.Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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Carissa Véliz, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI, views the slop takeover as the logical result of how Facebook works.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
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Afterward, the incident went viral as an example of AI slop seeping into the real world.Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Swill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swill. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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