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Kitchen refuse and scraps of waste food mixed with water for feeding to pigs
“They threw corn to the chickens and mixed sour mash with leftover food and dishwater to make swill for the pigs.”
Leftover refuse or scraps
“Cows could be kept right next to city distilleries and fed the leftover swill from the distilling process.”
A mouthful of a drink
“He took a swill of his coffee and watched me as I nibbled my sandwich.”
A soft, wet, shapeless mass of material
An alcoholic drink
A substance that is flowing and keeping no shape, such as water
A range of food of a particular type
A drink or potion that is made up of various ingredients
The water accumulated in a ship's hull
To consume a liquid or drink
“At sunset, everyone returns to the porch to swill rum punch and wait for the bats to swoop down.”
To eat or consume food
“You prise the oyster shells apart and swill down their briny sinew.”
To eat greedily or in large quantities
“It's not satisfying to expend all that effort preparing a meal for those types who keep waving the wine bottle around and slurring their words as they swill down the food.”
To wash something by flooding with water
“You want a van with wooden seats you can swill down at the end of the night.”
To move liquid around, typically randomly or haphazardly
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