Usually means: Drink quickly in small amounts.
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  1. swig: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. swig: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swig: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swig, swig: Wordnik
  7. swig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. swig: Wiktionary
  9. swig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. swig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. swig: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. swig: Dictionary.com
  13. swig: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. swig: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SWIG, Swig: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swig: Rhymezone
  19. Swig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. swig: Free Dictionary
  22. swig: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. swig: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. swig: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. swig: Encyclopedia

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  1. SWIG: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. swig: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
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(Note: See swigged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
verb:  (obsolete) To suck.
verb:  (nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.
noun:  (obsolete) Drink, liquor.
noun:  (by extension) A long draught from a drink.
noun:  (obsolete) A person who drinks deeply.
noun:  (nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
noun:  Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.

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