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Definition of swig:

(v) : to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); 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 (also: sweating)
"the drunken sailor swigged from the bottle of whisky."
(n) : a drink
"he took another swig."
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Definition of swig:

(v) : to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); 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 (also: sweating)
"the drunken sailor swigged from the bottle of whisky."
(n) : a drink
"he took another swig."

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