swizzle stick

  • 11swizzle stick — noun Date: 1879 a stick used to stir mixed drinks …

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  • 12swizzle stick — noun a stick used for frothing up or taking the fizz out of drinks …

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  • 13swizzle stick — noun (C) a small stick for mixing drinks …

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  • 14swizzle stick — swiz′zle stick n. vin a small wand or straw for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass • Etymology: 1875–80 …

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  • 15swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass. [1875 80] * * * …

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  • 16swizzle stick — /ˈswɪzəl stɪk/ (say swizuhl stik) noun a small rod for stirring drinks …

  • 17Swizzle — may refer to: * The Rum Swizzle, a cocktail * A swizzle stick, a stick for stirring cocktails. * In acro dance, a movement in which a dancer rotates 360 degrees while swinging his partner almost to the floor and then back to upright. * In figure… …

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  • 18swizzle — 1813, name for various kinds of liquor drinks, or for intoxicating drinks generally, possibly a variant of switchel a drink of molasses and water (often mixed with rum,) first attested 1790, of uncertain origin. Swizzle stick attested by 1859 …

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  • 19swizzle — [swiz′əl] n. [< ?] any of several chilled alcoholic drinks containing liquor, sugar, lime juice, etc. mixed together as with a swizzle stick …

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  • 20swizzle — 1. n. & v. colloq. n. a mixed alcoholic drink esp. of rum or gin and bitters made frothy. v.tr. stir with a swizzle stick. Phrases and idioms: swizzle stick a stick used for frothing or flattening drinks. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn. 2. n.… …

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