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Swipe

noun

A sweeping stroke or blow.

verb

(past & past part. swiped; pres. part. swiping)

Strike with a swiping motion.

Make off with belongings of others. Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak.

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"Swipe" Quotes from Famous Books

... "The British landed a swipe o' men at Amboy this mornin', makin' us fall back mighty quick ter Bonumtown, an' there, arter the orficers confabulated, it wuz decided thet as the bloody-backs wuz too strong ter fight, the militia and the flyin' camp thereabouts hed better ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... responded Tom. "But I'm not kicking. I'm lucky to be alive at all. That fellow made an awful swipe at me, and if it had hit me fair it would have been ...

— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall

... mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would grizzle and run away, If you 'it 'im a swipe on the jawr. 'E's slaughtered the Kaiser's men in tons; 'E's captured one of their quick-fire guns, And 'e 'adn't no practice in killin' 'Uns Afore 'e went ...

— Rhymes of a Red Cross Man • Robert W. Service

... and I made a swipe for him with a shovel, but he was too soople for me, and of all the lickings I ever got, that is the one I don't want to remember the most: he did a sort of double-shuffle fandango on my back, while he brought my legs into the argument ...

— Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters • Henry Wallace Phillips

... not want to kill him, but the path was narrow, and he was ready to go on. He advanced a foot or two, and Porky turned his back toward Thor and made ready to deliver a swipe with his powerful tail. In that tail were several hundred quills. As Thor had more than once come into contact ...

— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood

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