swipe

Word Origin & History

1807, "a driving stroke made with the arms in full swing," perhaps a dialectal variant of sweep (n.), or in part from obsolete swip "a stroke, blow" (c.1200), from Proto-Germanic *swip-, related to Old English swipu "a stick, whip." Other possible sources or influences are Middle English swope "to sweep with broad movements" (in reference to brooms, swords, etc.), from Old English swapan; obsolete swaip "stroke, blow;" or obsolete swape "oar, pole."

Example Sentences forswipe

And if you don't cough up a thousand and let me go, I'll swipe anything in sight.

Not that I swipe the whiskey, just sorry because I gets sick!

He goes to make a swipe at figure on other side of stairs—sees Rusty.

The swipe I took at him should have swept him over, but he got his coils around me.

Still, how was he to know they were going to swipe his idea?

You have only just got to fancy that it is a bung, and swipe at it with all your might.

Swipe, at cricket, to hit hard with a full swing of the bat.

He did it because he thought some one might have seen him swipe it.

I know he made the first swipe, but that wouldnt help you much.

Swipe at the first ball as though you were going to knock it over the fence!

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