swigs

Meaning of swigs

noun
  1. Drink, liquor.
  2. (by extension) A long draught from a drink.
  3. A person who drinks deeply.
  4. A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
  5. Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
verb
  1. To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
    That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.
  2. To suck.
  3. 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.

Information about swigs

  • The singular form of swigs is: swig.
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Hyphenation of swigs

swigs

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • swigs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

swigs synonyms

Meaning :

draught, sip, swill, chug, gulp, guzzle, quaff, sweating

Words that rhyme with swigs

wigs, bobwigs, bewigs, bagwigs, bigwigs, periwigs, polliwigs, earwigs, twigs, pollywigs, buzzwigs

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