swig
verb /swɪɡ/
/swɪɡ/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they swig | /swɪɡ/ /swɪɡ/ |
| he / she / it swigs | /swɪɡz/ /swɪɡz/ |
| past simple swigged | /swɪɡd/ /swɪɡd/ |
| past participle swigged | /swɪɡd/ /swɪɡd/ |
| -ing form swigging | /ˈswɪɡɪŋ/ /ˈswɪɡɪŋ/ |
- swig something to take a quick drink of something, especially alcohol
- They sat around swigging beer from bottles.
- He sat next to me, swigging at a bottle of vodka.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySwig is used with these nouns as the object:- beer
- brandy
- cider
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a noun in the obsolete sense ‘liquor’): of unknown origin.