I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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It was a feast, swilled down in the boys' case at least. with pints of good cider.
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I swilled down the half-pint of champagne as if it was bitter lemon.
out
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Strain off the surplus fat and swill out the pan with the wine and stock.
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We finished our soup and swilled out the mess tins with water from the jerry-can.
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I throw what's left down the sink and swill out the flask.
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Her mouth remained parched and she swilled out another glass.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do you know, the cobblestones couldn't be seen for the blood which swilled like water?
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He swills champagne with Lord and Lady Astor, so they say.
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It was a feast, swilled down in the boys' case at least. with pints of good cider.
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Strain off the surplus fat and swill out the pan with the wine and stock.
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The former big-league catcher had been assigned to interview the happy winners as they hugged each other and swilled champagne.
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They swilled gin in the afternoon out of jelly jars and swallowed sedatives.
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Turbo swills a couple of beers to warm up while his wife and fans gather to cheer him on.
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Was that a bad bit of barley he was swilling?
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dead rats, floating in the brown swill of beer with teeth bared in a last deathly snarl.
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He preferred, he said, to submerge himself in the urban swill , or be in deep country.
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The beer was just warm swill , and he drank it because Arthur put it down in front of him.
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The Channel swill chopped and slapped all around.
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Without his casual left guard he was bucket swill , the ugly effluvia that boxers deposit from their lacerated mouths between rounds.