swill down

1. 1.

   drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)

   Synonymsswill

   Broaderdrink

Questions about swill down

What does swill down mean?

swill down means "drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)".

What is another word for swill down?

Close synonyms include swill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swill down a common word?

swill down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.