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  • verb Present participle of swig.

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Examples

  • And, more hopefully, his new "publishing ventures" will be something more suited to his personality and abilities - such as walking the streets of Charlottesville in a tattered robe swigging from a brown paper bag while carrying a sign that says "Repent - the End Is Near!"

    Peyton Leaves Observer at cvillenews.com 2002

  • And, yes, the kool-aide you’ve been swigging is classified as a drug.

    Think Progress » Dan Bartlett Stumped When Asked to Name Anyone ‘Calling for the White Flag of Surrender’ 2006

  • "IOC to investigate celebration" which reports in the most prudish, puritanical prose imaginable the horror of women hockey players "swigging" champagne and "guzzling" beer on the ice after the fans had left the building.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • Q: Got a cherished hotel bar or lounge you love swigging a couple of drinks at?

    Oyster: The Best Fashion Week Hotels Oyster 2012

  • She'd been swigging "six cans of Pilsner" per show while portraying a widow who adopted her dead husband's male identity.

    Coffee with Tilda Swinton 2011

  • Every table was filled, a lunch crowd of gamblers and streetwalkers shoveling kraut and links from hot bins into their plates, swigging from steins of brew.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Behind me were four 20/30-somethings boisterously swigging from "coffee" cups.

    Manisha Thakor : Celebrity, Inc. Manisha Thakor 2011

  • Every table was filled, a lunch crowd of gamblers and streetwalkers shoveling kraut and links from hot bins into their plates, swigging from steins of brew.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • Behind me were four 20/30-somethings boisterously swigging from "coffee" cups.

    Manisha Thakor : Celebrity, Inc. Manisha Thakor 2011

  • My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.

    And Then the Fight Started « You Got to be Kidding's Blog 2009

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