English

Noun

swizzle ‎(plural swizzles)

1. Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink.

Derived terms

• swizzle stick

See also

• cocktail

Verb

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

1. To stir or mix.

   She swizzled the milk into her coffee.

2. (computing) To permute bits.
3. (computing, programming, transitive) To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
4. To drink; to swill.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Antonyms

• (convert symbols to pointers): unswizzle

References

1. ↑ “swizzle” in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online.
2. ↑ “swizzle” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).