Meaning

8 senses

  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.

    a sweeping stroke or blow

  3. (countable)An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.

  4. (countable)An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.

  5. (countable, informal)A rough guess; an estimate or swag.

    Take a swipe at the answer, even if you're not sure.

  6. (countable, informal)An attack, insult or critical remark.

    The politician took a swipe at his opponents.

  7. (uncountable)Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.

  8. (countable)An instance of swiping, a kind of ellipsis. See swiping.

Examples

18 sentences

  1. Swipe your card, and then enter your code.

    CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. Somebody swiped my bag.

    deJemand hat mir die Tasche gestohlen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

    CM · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. Swipe either left or right to see another animal.

    Пересунь палець ліворуч чи праворуч, щоб побачити іншу тварину. — Internecivus

    ruПередвинь палец влево или вправо, чтобы увидеть другое животное. — Olya

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  4. I swiped Tom's pencil.

    ruЯ стащил у Тома карандаш. — odexed

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  5. Swiper, no swiping!

    Крадію, не кради! — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR

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Origin

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move viole

From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move violently”), from Old English sweopian, swipian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn”). Cognate with German schwippen (“sway back and forth”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“riding crop, whip”). Related to sweep, swoop.

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Forms

plural: swipes
Singularswipe
Pluralswipes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
swipes

Word family

3 related words
Derivedsideswipeblind swipeswipe file

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
swingB2swingeswingerswirlswissswitchB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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