Usually means: Drink quickly, often poor quality.
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  1. swill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swill: Merriam-Webster
  3. swill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swill: Collins English Dictionary
  6. swill: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swill, swill: Wordnik
  8. swill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. swill: Wiktionary
  10. swill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. swill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. swill: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. swill: Dictionary.com
  14. swill (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. swill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Swill (Ten Foot Pole album), Swill (album), Swill (disambiguation), Swill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Swill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. swill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. swill: Rhymezone
  20. Swill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. swill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. swill: FreeDictionary.org
  23. swill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. swill: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWILL: Acronym Finder
  2. swill: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swill, swill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
noun:  (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
noun:  (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
noun:  (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
noun:  (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
noun:  (Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
verb:  (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
verb:  (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
verb:  (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
verb:  (intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
verb:  (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).

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