swizzle

noun swizzles

1. countable, uncountable Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink. “We brought tiki drinks.” “Oh.” “Tracy, turn loose that rum swizzle.” “Oh, Bill's back, and he's brought tiki drinks! You got a friend in me, Bill.”
2. alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of switchel (“drink based on water and vinegar”).
3. UK, countable, informal, uncountable Synonym of swizz (“swindle, disappointment”). “Coo! What a swizzle!” Relief at their safe deliverance was mingled with disappointment that the spider was not a rare specimen after all.

   Similar: swizz

4. countable, uncountable The conversion of portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.

verb swizzles · swizzling · swizzled

1. informal, transitive To stir or mix. She swizzled the milk into her coffee.
2. informal, intransitive To turn around. Mr Penguin and Colin swizzled around on the spot. Someone was standing in the hidden entrance, silhouetted against a harsh electric light.
3. informal, transitive To drink; to swill. I checked it all over after Mona got in, while you were swizzling beer in that saloon.
4. To permute bits, or elements of a vector.
5. transitive To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
6. transitive To change a class's dispatch table in order to resolve messages from an existing selector to a new implementation. If you or a loved one want to implement method swizzling, you may want to consider using a fairly well-tested wrapper package, such as JRSwizzle. Apple may reject applications that appear to use method swizzling in a dangerous way.

Opposite: unswizzle