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swiped

Variant of swipe

noun

  1. a lever or handle
  2. Informal
    1. a hard, sweeping blow
    2. a sweeping motion: give the table a swipe with a rag
  3. Informal a groom for horses, esp. at a racetrack

transitive verb swiped, swiping

  1. Informal
    1. to hit with a hard, sweeping blow
    2. to wipe with a sweeping motion
  2. Slang to steal; pilfer
  3. to pass (a credit card or other magnetically encoded card) across or through an electronic device that reads it

intransitive verb

to make a sweeping blow, stroke, or motion

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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