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What (who) is swipe - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Swiping; Swipe (disambiguation)
swipe
n.
Sweep, swape, well-sweep.
swipe
n. (colloq.)
critical remark
to take a swipe at
swipe
(swipes, swiping, swiped)
1.
If you swipe at a person or thing, you try to hit them with a stick or other object, making a swinging movement with your arm.
She swiped at Rusty as though he was a fly...
He swiped me across the shoulder with the poker.
VERB: V at n, V n
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Swipe is also a noun.
He took a swipe at Andrew that deposited him on the floor.
N-COUNT
2.
If you swipe something, you steal it quickly. (INFORMAL)
Five soldiers were each fined ?140 for swiping a wheelchair from a disabled tourist...
= pinch
VERB: V n
3.
If you take a swipe at a person or an organization, you criticize them, usually in an indirect way.
In a swipe at the president, he called for an end to 'begging for aid around the world'.
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4.
If you swipe a credit card or swipe card through a machine, you pass it through a narrow space in the machine so that the machine can read information on the card's magnetic strip.
Swipe your card through the phone, then dial.
VERB: V n through n, also V n
Wikipedia
Swipe
Swipe may refer to:
- Swipe (barbershop), a music arranging technique
- Swipe (breakdance move)
- Swipe (comics), a technical term
- Swipe (dice game)
- Swipe (magazine), a free fortnightly in London, UK
- swIPe (protocol), an IP network security feature
- Swipe file, a template used in marketing and copywriting
- Swipe card, or magnetic stripe card
- Swipe (novel), 2012, by Evan Angler
- Swipe, a fictional band from the movie Tamara Drewe
- Pointing device gesture, described as "swipe right", "swipe left", or 'swipe up"
Examples of use of swipe
1. Economy." Kadima will probably take a swipe at Mr.
2. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel took a swipe at Sen.
3. The swipe machine for the credit card wouldnt work.
4. But he also took another swipe at President Bush.
5. And he even manages to take a swipe at the fourth judge Len Goodman‘s legendary niceness.