The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SWIG
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More clues leading to the result SWIG
- Slug in bottom of glass with syrup
- Around noon, this nautical pulley is to be strung up
- Son needs head covering in strong draught
- Son given rebuke is down
- Drink spirits initially, something that goes to the head
- Drink shorts with ice? Gin, primarily
- Son gets syrup drink
- Drink top of sugar syrup
- Drink essence of tasty syrup
- . With maiden away, bathe girl in drink!
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What does SWIG mean?
SWIG noun- Drink, liquor.
- (by extension) A long draught from a drink.
- A person who drinks deeply.
- A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
- Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
- To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
- To suck.
- 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.