swizzle

noun

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. (alt-of, 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.”

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

verb

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.”

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

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.”