Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various tall mixed drinks usually made with rum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To drink habitually and to excess; swill.
- noun One of various differently compounded drinks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To drink; to swill.
- noun Prov. Eng. Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Various kinds of alcoholic drinks.
- verb To
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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hotel Angelini, sipping his "swizzle" and studiously watching the
Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912
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Vodka from a small carafe is then poured into the vessel and stirred with a piece of lemongrass, its ends splintered to serve as a swizzle stick.
Raising the Bar Kevin Sintumuang 2011
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The drink recipe and ingredients or tools to make your specialty cocktail mojito muddlers, margarita salt, swizzle sticks, etc.
My Fair Wedding David Tutera 2011
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The drink recipe and ingredients or tools to make your specialty cocktail mojito muddlers, margarita salt, swizzle sticks, etc.
My Fair Wedding David Tutera 2011
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It came with lots of fresh mint, a female silhouette shaped swizzle stick and a big stalk of sugar cane.
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It looks like a swizzle stick decorated with a bouffant that belongs on the edge of a drink.
Diorama stephen hastings-king 2011
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The drink recipe and ingredients or tools to make your specialty cocktail mojito muddlers, margarita salt, swizzle sticks, etc.
My Fair Wedding David Tutera 2011
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It's as if the little snippets of these lives which you can bet were pitched as "vignettes" had a greater purpose than to swizzle our brains into believing that flying is anything but tediously mundane.
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I use those skinny chocolate mint sticks as swizzle sticks.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge. 2009
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The drink recipe and ingredients or tools to make your specialty cocktail mojito muddlers, margarita salt, swizzle sticks, etc.
My Fair Wedding David Tutera 2011
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word swizzle
Swizzle, a portmanteau of swirl and fizzle.
March 6, 2025