(1) Metcalf’s note records that the officer told him he did not want to put in writing that the arresting officers’ evidence was contradicted by the film, because: “There would appear to be some opposition at Snig Hill [South Yorkshire police’s then headquarters] to our providing evidence which could cause the case to be lost.” The Hillsborough families’ lawyers, in their legal argument, said this showed senior officers did not want the discrepancy between the film and the officers’ evidence to be in writing, because it could then have to be disclosed to the miners’ lawyers making the civil claims.
(2) Donald Denton – chief superintendent Denton was a senior administrator based at Snig Hill police headquarters in Sheffield and had the job of liaising with West Midlands police, the force brought in to conduct the investigation for Taylor and the first coroner.
(3) The IPCC found internal notes by Hammond Suddards, suggesting that senior officers at Snig Hill, the force headquarters, acknowledged that some miners had not been treated properly and there was some perjury by officers.
Swig
Definition:
(v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
(v. t.) To suck.
(n.) A long draught.
(n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
(n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
(v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
(v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Example Sentences:
(1) "A paramedic taking a swig from the Coke bottle in his glove compartment that's half vodka."
(2) Just when you’re wondering if the real Nigel Farage will stand up, he ends the ad by swigging from a good old pint of ale.
(3) One man took turns swigging from what appeared to be a bottle of pink champagne in each hand, shouting “no justice, no peace” to no one in particular.
(4) Goldfish are swallowed, whisky is swigged from condoms, bodily fluids are smeared on furniture.
(5) And in case you wondered where she stood on this final, most pathetic failure of New York's imperious chief executive, on Monday night across from Piers Morgan, Quinn took a massive swig from a 32oz soft drink.
(6) When two men dressed entirely in tin foil with silver bobbles on their heads walked into the village swigging beer, TV reporters immediately surrounded them.
(7) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
(8) Nadal trots to his chair for a quick swig of an energy drink.
(9) The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home.
(10) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
(11) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
(12) People swigged beer, marijuana spiced the air, hip-hop streamed from a sound system.
(13) Swigging his brown bitter while Morrissey sipped his orange juice, he tried to find out whether this Smiths person liked Special K, Prefab Sprout or the Beatles.
(14) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian We found a spot outside HSBC, sniggered at the irony, and I took a swig from my hip flask of hot water, honey and lemon, and another swig of Buttercup cough syrup before we kicked off.
(15) Ahrendts, who is married to her childhood sweetheart and has three children, rises at 5am and swigs Diet Coke.
(16) Remember the rise of the 90s “ladette”, personified in 1999 by the then Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter Zoë Ball swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the morning of her wedding to Norman Cook?
(17) In my view, people are searching for a different coffee experience, and that’s what artisan coffee is.” When Extract started roasting coffee beans in a shed in 2007, there were no hordes of bearded, craft beer swigging hipsters banging down the door for their daily caffeine hit.
(18) The two leaders, along with Merkel’s chemistry professor husband, Joachim Sauer, then sat down with locals for a specially brewed G7 summit banana and clove-flavour weissbier, weisswurst and pretzels, all of them appearing to swig back the beer, despite the early hour.
(19) A portly, bespectacled figure sporting a plum-coloured tie, Cayne swigged from a plastic bottle of water while answering questions.
(20) One quick swig from the magic bottle later and he's okay.