Swipe

swipe
    n 1: a sweeping stroke or blow
    v 1: strike with a swiping motion
    2: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage},
       {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook},
       {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
    

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.
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            Loose balls may be swiped almost ad libitum. --R. A.
                                                  Proctor.
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   2. To pluck; to snatch; to steal. [Slang, U.S.]
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Swipe \Swipe\, n. [Cf. {Sweep}, {Swiple}.]
   1. A swape or sweep. See {Sweep}.
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   2. A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat
      or club.
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            Swipes [in cricket] over the blower's head, and over
            either of the long fields.            --R. A.
                                                  Proctor.
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   3. pl. Poor, weak beer; small beer. [Slang, Eng.] [Written
      also {swypes}.] --Craig.
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Sweep \Sweep\, n.
   1. The act of sweeping.
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   2. The compass or range of a stroke; as, a long sweep.
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   3. The compass of any turning body or of any motion; as, the
      sweep of a door; the sweep of the eye.
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   4. The compass of anything flowing or brushing; as, the flood
      carried away everything within its sweep.
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   5. Violent and general destruction; as, the sweep of an
      epidemic disease.
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   6. Direction and extent of any motion not rectlinear; as, the
      sweep of a compass.
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   7. Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the
      like, away from a rectlinear line.
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            The road which makes a small sweep.   --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   8. One who sweeps; a sweeper; specifically, a chimney
      sweeper.
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   9. (Founding) A movable templet for making molds, in loam
      molding.
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   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.
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   11. (Refining) The almond furnace. [Obs.]
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   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}.]
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   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.
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   14. pl. The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are
       worked, containing filings, etc.
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   {Sweep net}, a net for drawing over a large compass.

   {Sweep of the tiller} (Naut.), a circular frame on which the
      tiller traverses.
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194 Moby Thesaurus words for "swipe":
      Parthian shot, 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,
      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