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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quaff .
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Examples
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Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Nowadays it's a party drink, to be quaffed during a night out at the club.
Tony Sachs: Candy? Flowers? Feh! New Spirits To Wow Your Sweetie This Valentine's Day Tony Sachs 2012
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In the middle of town was a tavern, where a merry troupe of Spandex-clad cyclists quaffed golden pilsners around a long picnic table.
Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels Todd Pitock 2011
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Drunken with the wine of success deep-quaffed, without superstition and without faith in aught but its own ascendant star, laughing at the wreckage of science and mad with pride of race, it went forth upon the way of war.
Goliah 2010
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But having quaffed his bubbly in the warm glow of achievement, the headteacher, Mike Welsh, admits the process has been "really hectic".
One of the first primary academies celebrates its new status Louise Tickle 2010
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Several top athletes from Europe quaffed the beverage from giant mugs on the podium of the World Cup biathlons held in northern Maine.
Andrea Metcalf: Beer at the Finish Line? Andrea Metcalf 2011
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Yes, the dip/spread is addictive with considerable salt within and on the chips, needing a beverage to be quaffed over three or four hours while intensely engrossed in the action or in the gossiping on the sidelines: I vote for light, cool, flavorful and modest alcohol – Beaujolais-Villages.
Seven layer dip: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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Nowadays it's a party drink, to be quaffed during a night out at the club.
Tony Sachs: Candy? Flowers? Feh! New Spirits To Wow Your Sweetie This Valentine's Day Tony Sachs 2012
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Several top athletes from Europe quaffed the beverage from giant mugs on the podium of the World Cup biathlons held in northern Maine.
Andrea Metcalf: Beer at the Finish Line? Andrea Metcalf 2011
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Now they jot down their impressions on pre-printed pads, noting brewery, brewmaster, malts and hops used, aroma, taste, aftertaste and circumstances under which the beer was quaffed.
Beer: 20,000 beers under their look-see Greg Kitsock 2011
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