Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stick or whisk used in making swizzles and other drinks: in China and Japan usually made of bamboo.
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Examples
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But the piece he came up with — a spiraling swizzle-stick named Astraspire — fell short of expectations.
Icon of a Fair, a Borough, the World Thomas J. Campanella 2010
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The celery can be used as a Bloody Mary straw or an edible swizzle-stick.
Boing Boing 2006
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Steward, bring hither a fatted calf and the swizzle-stick.
The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926
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The antelope had vanished as if it had never been, and a few yards from the shore, in the midst of a lather of water that seemed beaten up with a great swizzle-stick, the leopard's head, mouth open, roaring, horrified his eyes for a moment and then was jerked under the surface.
The Pools of Silence 1907
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After months of sipping my Internet through the narrow and frequently blocked swizzle-stick of Chinese "broadband" it's always refreshing to turn the VPN off and draw my Internet through the big-bore bubble tea straw of an American or Singaporean ISP.
Imagethief 2010
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After months of sipping my Internet through the narrow and frequently blocked swizzle-stick of Chinese "broadband" it's always refreshing to turn the VPN off and draw my Internet through the big-bore bubble tea straw of an American or Singaporean ISP.
Imagethief will 2010
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After months of sipping my Internet through the narrow and frequently blocked swizzle-stick of Chinese "broadband" it's always refreshing to turn the VPN off and draw my Internet through the big-bore bubble tea straw of an American or Singaporean ISP.
Imagethief will 2010
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After months of sipping my Internet through the narrow and frequently blocked swizzle-stick of Chinese "broadband" it's always refreshing to turn the VPN off and draw my Internet through the big-bore bubble tea straw of an American or Singaporean ISP.
Imagethief 2010
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With their snake-like necks and swizzle-stick noses, softshells aren't the cutest critters in the pond.
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That's where I encountered things like the "swizzle-stick collectors 'society."
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