swizzle-stick

swizzle stick

A small, thin rod used to stir (especially mixed alcoholic) drinks. The bar has these custom-made swizzle sticks that look very cool in your cocktail. Tom's got an extraordinary collection of swizzle sticks from bars around the world!
See also: stick, swizzle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

swizzle-stick

n. a drunkard. (From the name of a short stick used to stir an alcoholic drink.) That guy is a swizzle-stick. Don’t give him any more.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • swizzle stick
  • jam into (something)
  • get this
  • Can you/we say (something)?
  • swizzle
  • swizzled
  • seem like
  • seem like (something)
  • golden
  • keep a weather eye open
References in periodicals archive
Indeed, there is at least one swizzle-stick collectors club, and of the 58 swizzle sticks currently being offered for sale on eBay, the auction website the highest priced one a "Wooden girlie swizzle stick" from the 1940's is listed at $35.
Pretty Please..
Most looked as if they couldn't tell a ski-stick from a swizzle-stick.
TV Plus; Olde worlde CHARMERS
They'd get a lot more viewers if Calista Flockhart tucked into a five-course meal and put on half a stone - before somebody uses her for a swizzle-stick!Give us a vote on House of HypocritesNEVER dreamed I would say this, but I wish I was Australian.
TOM BROWN; Pulling on a blue jersey doesn't make you a Scot
Their manager opens a pro-life cafe, complete with plastic fetus-topped swizzle-sticks (waved at the camera at every opportunity), not as a true reflection of pro-life zealotry but purely as a savvy business venture.
Never Been Thawed
Why glass swizzle-sticks instead of a glass menagerie?
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