swills

Gulps down fast

Swills is the third-person singular of swill, meaning to drink greedily or in large quantities: He swills beer like water.

Swill also means to rinse or wash by sloshing liquid around: She swills out the bucket after each use.

As a noun, swill is watery food waste fed to pigs, or any unappetizing liquid: This coffee tastes like swill.

drinking

gulps

Hasty, large swallows

slugs · swigs · downs · slurps · drains · knocks back · belts · sips · imbibes · swallows

livestock

slop

Liquid food waste

waste · trough · hogs · swine · offal · mash · dregs · garbage · fodder · bucket

rinsing

rinses

Light washes with water

sluices · cleanses · douses · hoses · sprays · sloshes · swooshes · clears · bathes · irrigates

liquid-movement

sloshes

Moves liquid messily

eddies · agitates · whirls · stirs · roils · surges · laps · ripples · gyrates · moves

Opposites
drinking manner

swillssips

Small measured drinks

nurses · savors · tastes · samples · abstains

liquid handling care

swillsconserves

Protects from depletion

preserves · rations · portions · hoards

liquid handling/cleaning

swillsdries

Loses moisture content

drains · empties · desiccates · absorbs · blots

Family

swill, swilling, swilled

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G