'Swipe' definitions:
Definition of 'swipe'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Swipe'
From: GCIDE
- Swipe \Swipe\, n. [Cf. Sweep, Swiple.]
- 1. A swape or sweep. See Sweep. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. [1913 Webster]
- Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over either of the long fields. --R. A. Proctor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written also swypes.] --Craig. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swipe'
From: GCIDE
- Swipe \Swipe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swiped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swiping.]
- 1. To give a swipe to; to strike forcibly with a sweeping motion, as a ball. [1913 Webster]
- Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. --R. A. Proctor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'swipe'
From: GCIDE
- Sweep \Sweep\, n.
- 1. The act of sweeping. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood carried away everything within its sweep. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an epidemic disease. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the sweep of a compass. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line. [1913 Webster]
- The road which makes a small sweep. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney sweeper. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam molding. [1913 Webster]
- 10. (Naut.) (a) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle. (b) A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them. [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 12. A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water. [Variously written swape, sweep, swepe, and swipe.] [1913 Webster]
- 13. (Card Playing) In the game of casino, a pairing or combining of all the cards on the board, and so removing them all; in whist, the winning of all the tricks (thirteen) in a hand; a slam. [1913 Webster]
- 14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Sweep net, a net for drawing over a large compass.
- Sweep of the tiller (Naut.), a circular frame on which the tiller traverses. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'swipe'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract,
- adverse criticism,
- and,
- animadversion,
- annex,
- appropriate,
- aspersion,
- back answer,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- bag,
- bang,
- barrack,
- bash,
- bat,
- beating,
- belt,
- biff,
- blow,
- bonk,
- boost,
- borrow,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- caustic remark,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chaff,
- chop,
- clap,
- clip,
- clobber,
- clout,
- clump,
- coldcock,
- comeback,
- conk,
- cop,
- crack,
- crib,
- criticism,
- cut,
- cut at,
- cutting remark,
- dash,
- deal,
- deal a blow,
- deck,
- defraud,
- dig,
- dig at,
- dint,
- drub,
- drubbing,
- drumming,
- dump,
- dump on,
- embezzle,
- exception,
- extort,
- faultfinding,
- fetch,
- fetch a blow,
- filch,
- flak,
- fleer,
- flout,
- foolery,
- fusillade,
- gibe,
- gibing retort,
- hairsplitting,
- heist,
- hit,
- hit a clip,
- hit at,
- home thrust,
- hook,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- jab,
- jab at,
- jape,
- jeer,
- jest,
- knock,
- knock cold,
- knock down,
- knock out,
- lash out at,
- leg-pull,
- let have it,
- lick,
- lift,
- make off with,
- mock,
- nab,
- nagging,
- nail,
- nick,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nip,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- overcriticalness,
- palm,
- Parthian shot,
- parting shot,
- paste,
- pelt,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- pilfer,
- pinch,
- plunk,
- poach,
- poke,
- pooh,
- pooh-pooh,
- pound,
- priggishness,
- punch,
- purloin,
- put down,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- quip,
- rail at,
- rally,
- rank out,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- revile,
- rude reproach,
- run away with,
- rustle,
- scoff,
- scout,
- scrounge,
- scurrility,
- shoplift,
- short answer,
- slam,
- slap,
- slap at,
- slog,
- slug,
- smack,
- smash,
- smite,
- snaffle,
- snap,
- snare,
- snatch,
- sneer,
- sneer at,
- snitch,
- soak,
- sock,
- steal,
- stricture,
- strike,
- strike at,
- stroke,
- swat,
- swindle,
- swing,
- swing at,
- take,
- taking exception,
- tattoo,
- taunt,
- thieve,
- thump,
- thwack,
- trichoschistism,
- twit,
- verbal thrust,
- walk off with,
- wallop,
- whack,
- wham,
- whip,
- whop,
- wipe,
- yerk