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swirlie en · NOUN

Etymology

From swirl + -ie.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:school slang) A mode of school bullying involving holding a person upside down over a toilet bowl, submerging their head, then flushing water.
   • [Tom Gribalski:] In my other school, five guys held my head in a toilet, and then flushed it. [Alan Twitty:] You got a swirlie. That's vile! 2000 September 23, Dennis Rinsler, “Scrub Day”, in Even Stevens, season 1, episode 9:
   • I gave this nerd a swirlie.

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