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What (who) is Swoop - definition
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Swoop (mascot); Swooping; Swoop (band); Swooping (disambiguation); Swoop (disambiguation)
swoop
¦ verb
1. (especially of a bird) move rapidly downwards through the air.
carry out a sudden raid.
2. informal seize with a sweeping motion.
¦ noun an act of swooping.
Phrases
at (or in) one fell swoop see fell4.
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'sweep along in a stately manner'): perh. a dialect var. of OE swapan (see sweep).
Swoop
·vi To pass with pomp; to Sweep.
II. Swoop ·noun To Seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
III. Swoop ·vi To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
IV. Swoop ·noun To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
V. Swoop ·noun A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of Swooping.
swoop
I. v. a.
1.
Seize (as a hawk its prey), catch while on the wing.
2.
Catch up, pounce upon, seize, clutch.
II. v. n.
Stoop, descend, come down, bear down.
III. n.
1.
Clutch, seizure.
2.
Stoop, descent.
Examples of use of Swoop
1. First reported swoop÷ Tuesday‘s operation was the first reported swoop in what police have described as the biggest crime investigation in English history.
2. Dozens of Bedouins were arrested in a dawn swoop.
3. And the foreigners swoop in to take advantage of the good deals.
4. The swoop was launched to disrupt foreign fighters and militant weapons facilitator operations, said the spokesman.
5. We cannot but thank the Swiss, who in one fell swoop severed us from our delusions.