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Definition swipe

Etymology

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swipen (“to move violently”), from Old English swipian, sweopian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-Germanic *swip?n?, *swipjan? (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swerve, sway, swing, sweep”). Cognate with German schwippen (“to whip”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“to whip; move swiftly”). Related to sweep, swoop.

Verb

swipe (third-person singular simple present swipes, present participle swiping, simple past and past participle swiped)

  1. (transitive, colloquial) To steal or snatch.
  2. (transitive) To scan or register by sliding something through a reader.
  3. (intransitive) To grab or bat quickly.
  4. (intransitive, computing) To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
  5. (transitive) To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion.

Noun

swipe (countable and uncountable, plural swipes)

  1. (countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; A sweep.
  2. (countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
  3. (countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
  4. (uncountable) Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

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