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Meanings of swill down in anglès

Drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)

Sinònims
Examples for "swill"
Examples for "swill"
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The ban on feeding swill will stay until the end of December.
The Irish Times
2
Several port-coloured men swill and gurgle and spit wine into silver buckets.
The Irish Times
3
Half the year they smuggle and swill, the other half they starve.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
4
He can memorise at sight all the revolting contents of a swill-tub.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919
5
They swill the cordial till ten o'clock and at last they go.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
Usage of swill down in anglès
1
Then, get sponges and clean water to swill down the tables and seats.
The Odyssey / Rendered into English prose for the use of those w...
2
Doaks swills down the last of his coffee and grins at her.
Saving max
3
The top steps swilled down and the other ones dry.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
4
He lit a cigarette, sucked in the smoke and swilled down some cold champagne.
A week in december
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For the sake of a balanced diet, I swilled down more water, then a mouthful of lettuce.
More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
6
Neils dropped the pad back onto the table and swilled down the rest of his cold beer.
Running scared
7
We swilled down Cokes and talked and laughed more than we had ever laughed before in one night.
Fear nothing
8
Lester swilled down some more champagne.
While galileo preys
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Vasilyev too was in rare form, swilling down the ambassador's wine and talking of old times before the revolution.
Beautiful assassin
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"Indeed." He swilled down the rest of the moonshine and smacked his lips.
Swan Song
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The water lapped up in the palm, as the soldier marches, is sweeter than the abundant draughts swilled down by self-indulgence.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
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When she was not singing the praises of the Lord, Lettie Jean was swilling down beer, laughing, and telling dirty jokes.
Creepers
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"I'm coming," said Albinus, and swilled down his beer.
Laughter in the dark
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"Hey, it's Otto Waterhouse, the infamous killer cop and cop killer!" roared Hagbard, swilling down beer from his huge stein.
The illuminatus! trilogy