Fill
Fill verb - To put into (something) as much as can be held or contained.
Plonk
Plonk verb - Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.
Both words in one sentence
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When the Meldrews drink an expensive bottle of wine bought by Patrick and Pippa for her father, they fill the bottle with some cheap plonk instead, reasoning that a bottle that expensive is going in a collection, never to be drunk anyway.
Source: Series / One Foot in the Grave
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