swigging

Verb

swig (third-person singular simple present swigs, present participle swigging, simple past and past participle swigged)

1. To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
   • That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.

   Synonyms:

   chug, gulp, guzzle, quaff

2. (obsolete) To suck.
   • As sucking Colts leap when they swig the Teat1684, Thomas Creech, Idylliums of Theocritus
3. 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.

   Synonyms:

   sweating

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