a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
Informal. a swing of the arm in order to strike somebody; punch.
a sideswipe.
Informal. a critical or cutting remark.
a leverlike device for raising or lowering a weight, especially a bucket in a well; sweep.
an act or instance of swiping: You can debit your checking account with just a swipe of your card.
Also called rubber .Horse Racing. a person who rubs down horses in a stable; groom.
verb (used with object),swiped,swip·ing.
to strike with a sweeping blow.
Informal. to steal: He'll swipe anything that isn't nailed down.
to slide (a magnetic card) quickly through an electronic device that reads data.
Digital Technology. to move a finger or fingers, or a stylus, across an area on (a touchscreen) in order to execute a command: Put your finger on the arrow and swipe the screen to the right to unlock your phone.
verb (used without object),swiped,swip·ing.
to make a sweeping stroke.
to slide a magnetic card through an electronic device.
Digital Technology. to move the fingers across a touchscreen: Swipe to the right to close the article.
Origin of swipe
1730–40; akin to sweep1; cognate with German schweifen
Instead of using physical buttons, the right cup features swipe gestures to adjust volume or switch tracks.
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Swipe, pass judgment, see who likes you and see if anyone likes you back.
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“One swipe with a crowbar and he would have been down,” Sasha said.
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The crook then produces a MetroCard of his own and offers to swipe the would-be traveler through—for a premium price.
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When Gilmore took a swipe at Rand Paul by name, I feared for his safety.
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They say this year Keys is going to shut down on the sporting life and swipe some of the Bones type.
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“He killed the three animal keepers almost at one swipe,” said the man, who proved to be the second mate.
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You make a swipe or two at it with your niblick and only manage to get mud on your face and drive it deeper among the grass roots.
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Still, how was he to know they were going to swipe his idea?
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Swipe at the first ball as though you were going to knock it over the fence!
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British Dictionary definitions for swipe
swipe
/ (swaɪp) /
verb
(when intr, usually foll by at) informalto hit hard with a sweeping blow
(tr)slangto steal
(tr)to pass a machine-readable card, such as a credit card, debit card, etc, through a machine that electronically interprets the information encoded, usu. in a magnetic strip, on the card
noun
informala hard blow
an unexpected criticism of someone or something while discussing another subject
Also called: sweepa type of lever for raising and lowering a weight, such as a bucket in a well