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noun
The area where a disorderly, argumentative and riotous election takes place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Name of the fictitious setting of riotous parliamentary elections in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Derived from eat and swill; see swill (“to drink”).
