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Swipe

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

... turned away to his work. "Well, then, I guess it's as good as over. Give old Willie a swipe for me, ...

— Cheerful—By Request • Edna Ferber

... 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 with porcupine ...

— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood

... duel and blazed at one of the Prussians, being lucky enough to land him, and at the same time Sandy got in his work with the cold steel on the other Hun. Then, wiping the perspiration from his face with a swipe of his hand, he looked toward us and hollered "Gude work, laddies," and dashed ...

— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant

... tactics. His "eye" was in; now or never let him score. A half-volley came down from the pavilion end—a half-volley and off the wicket. The Etonian put all the strength and power he had suppressed so manfully into a tremendous swipe, and hit the ball clean over ...

— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

... Mack, "there's SOME reward hung out for him that I'm figuring to born in on. I'd swipe it all myself, don't you make any mistake about that, and you'd never get a look-in, only, sore as the mob is on the Gray Seal, it ain't healthy for any guy around these parts to get the reputation of being a snitch, no matter ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

Words linked to "Swipe" : steal, shot, hit, stroke