swizzle

plural swizzles

1. countableuncountableAny 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.”

   2022 July 13, Dominic Dierkes, “The Cubic Lattice Crystallizer” (6:32 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 3, episode 8, spoken by Korvo Opposites (Justin Roiland)

2. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of switchel (“drink based on water and vinegar”).
3. UKcountableinformaluncountableSynonym 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.

   1950, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Goes to School

   Synonyms: swizz

4. countableuncountablecomputingThe conversion of portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.

present singular third person swizzles · participle present swizzling · participle past swizzled · past swizzled

1. informaltransitiveTo stir or mix.

   She swizzled the milk into her coffee.

2. informalintransitiveTo turn around.

   "Why does it have two gears?" I exclaimed as I swizzled around, looking for a brake on the mini vehicle.

   2023, Rosey Thomas Palmer, Lights at Sea

   1 more example

   Mr Penguin and Colin swizzled around on the spot. Someone was standing in the hidden entrance, silhouetted against a harsh electric light.

   2018, Alex T. Smith, Mr Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets: Book 2, page 201

3. informaltransitiveTo drink; to swill.

   I checked it all over after Mona got in, while you were swizzling beer in that saloon.

   1958, Baynard Kendrick, Reservations for Death

4. computingTo permute bits, or elements of a vector.
5. transitivecomputingTo convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
6. transitivecomputingTo 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.

   2016, David Thiel, iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 25