Swizzle definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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To that end he put down the last shilling he had for a swizzle, and was so outrageously offended when O'Fallen refused to take it, that the silver was immediately swept into the till; and very soon, with his eye-glass to his eye, Mr. Jones was drunk That was the occasion mentioned in the first sentence of this history, when Vic was very angry The bar-room was full.

—The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

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noun Any of various tall mixed drinks usually made with rum.

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Mark that line somehow -- with a rock if you're on the grass, a chalk line if you're on blacktop, or a swizzle stick if you are sipping daiquiris by the pool. — F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 02 - August 1999
This story goes under the category UNDEAD DELIGHT and the answer is: Would you like a swizzle stick in that Copyright of Fantasy ; Science Fiction is the property of Spilogale, Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. — F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
It's All About the Swizzle: These drinks are not shaken or stirred, but rather "swizzled with a genuine swizzle stick, snapped off a tree native to the Caribbean." — Serious Eats: New York
Tried the rum swizzle, but I'm not in love with pineapple juice in my cocktails.
That's where I encountered things like the "swizzle-stick collectors 'society." — Interior Design Industry News