swizzling

Verb

swizzle (third-person singular simple present swizzles, present participle swizzling, simple past and past participle swizzled)

1. (informal, transitive) To stir or mix.
   • She swizzled the milk into her coffee.
2. (informal, intransitive) To turn around.
   • Mr Penguin and Colin swizzled around on the spot. Someone was standing in the hidden entrance, silhouetted against a harsh electric light.2018, Alex T. Smith, Mr Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets: Book 2, page 201
3. (informal, transitive) To drink; to swill.
   • I checked it all over after Mona got in, while you were swizzling beer in that saloon.1958, Baynard Kendrick, Reservations for Death
4. To permute bits, or elements of a vector.
5. (transitive) To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
6. (transitive) To change a class's dispatch table in order to resolve messages from an existing selector to a new implementation.
   • If you or a loved one want to implement method swizzling, you may want to consider using a fairly well-tested wrapper package, such as JRSwizzle. Apple may reject applications that appear to use method swizzling in a dangerous way.2016, David Thiel, iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 25

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