as in to sip
to swallow in liquid form
after digging our car out of the snowdrift, we were ready to quaff some hot chocolate
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Recent Examples of quaff
Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025
Food52 has joined with Athletic Brewing Company, the nonalcoholic behemoth, to create Host & Toast, a light, lemony, food-friendly holiday season quaff made in Belgian wheat style ($14.99 for six, athleticbrewing.com).
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
In the first century A.D., Emperor Nero, who was renowned as a party boy, was famed for quaffing iced drinks flavored with honey.
—Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
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Noun
Nonalcoholic quaffs including beers and zero-proof cocktails are also available.
—Verb
Mark Zuckerberg just fired an entire industry’s worth of fact-checkers, then capped it off by appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience to quaff an entire jar of red pills.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for quaff
Noun
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Brunch, cocktails, pasta and sushi are all on the way, along with African cuisine, Middle Eastern sips, seafood and steaks.—
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By contrast, the surgeon general’s report relies largely on secondary sources and assumes that cancer risk rises with every sip, without identifying a threshold at which harm meaningfully begins.—
Verb
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Food and drink There’s no shortage of food options for hotel guests and visitors stopping by at all hours of the day.—
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But generally, fewer people are seeking out these whales, so fewer are being made, partly because people are not drinking as many high-octane, high alcohol beers.—
Noun
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Can his viewer tolerate one big gulp of pure sentimentality after two-plus hours that have largely skirted that tone?—
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Even as dusk descended, people lined up to gulp from public fountains (another blessing), to fill their water bottles, or to splash their bare skin.—
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“Quaff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quaff. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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