Sentence examples for swizz from inspiring English sources

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swizz

verb

To swindle.

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But Nicholas Shaxson, author of "Treasure Islands", a book on offshore finance (and a former contributor to this paper), calls it a "Swiss tax swizz": the country will in effect pay a fat fee to avoid revealing clients' names.

"What is this enormous swizz?" the beginner gardener asks.

There's also the little-known singer Mashonda, who was previously married to the producer Swizz Beatz (who later married Alicia Keys).

"She single-handedly cleaned up hip-hop," said the producer Swizz Beatz (and husband of Alicia Keys), who was wearing a Maison Martin Margiela jacket, Dolce & Gabbana slacks and Lanvin sneakers.

"A Jay-Z or Swizz Beatz can relate to that as record executives".

His co-star, Tim Heidecker, was already waiting by the stage for the entertainment, Jay-Z (with a cameo by Swizz Beatz), to perform, Mr. Wareheim said.

ON a muggy August morning, the hip-hop producer known as Swizz Beatz stepped from the SoHo apartment he shares with Alicia Keys, and climbed into an S.U.V. with his 5-year-old son.

What a swizz.

It was a swizz, a BBC con, a terrible outrage perpetrated on the innocent and trusting viewers, who had expected nothing less than a royal blue posing pouch.

Vance Joy actually played VFL football a few years back, so I'm sure even he realises what an epic swizz this whole thing is.

A quick swizz at the reviews pages would perhaps lead one to this conclusion as well - Summerscale's book is almost universally described as a "whodunit".

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