sluk, noun

/slək/
Forms:
Also sluck.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, as sluk verb.
slang
A gulp, mouthful, swig, or ‘slurp’. Also figurative.
1946 Cape Times in E. Partridge Dict. of Underworld (1950) 630Skep a sluk, to take a drink.
1972 R. Malan Ah Big Yaws 47‘Gimmie a sluck ivyaw Pipsie, mehn (sc. of your Pepsi, man).’
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 12 Feb. 119Trying to catch a sluk of yore cane and Coke as the sun sinks slowly into the Valley of a Thousand Hills.
1975 ‘Blossom’ in Darling 26 Feb. 111A tiekiedraai coming out the loudspeakers and all around us the crowd shifting and muttering and taking sluks out the half-jacks..in they back pockets.
1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle 129As peach brandy goes, this is among the best sluks I’ve ever tasted.
1977 C. Hope in S. Gray Theatre Two (1981) 51Bo-Bo (offers can): Have a sluk. Jimmie: Nay, I already drowned a nip of voddies.
1981 C. Barnard in Daily Dispatch 19 Oct. 8After the meal we went back for another sluk of culture at the British Museum, sated with boere asparagi.
1986 G. Silber in Style Sept. 88‘Okay,’ he claps, rising from the chair with a last sluk of tea from a paper cup.
1990 P. O’Byrne on Radio South Africa Nov.Must take a breath and a sluk.
A gulp, mouthful, swig, or ‘slurp’. Also figurative.
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