Definitions for swipe

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Spelling: [swahyp]

IPA: /swaɪp/

Swipe is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in swipe (eipsw).

Definitions for swipe

noun

1. a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club.
2. Informal. a swing of the arm in order to strike somebody; punch.
3. a sideswipe.
4. Informal. a critical or cutting remark.
5. a leverlike device for raising or lowering a weight, especially a bucket in a well; sweep.
6. an act or instance of swiping:
7. Also called rubber. Horse Racing. a person who rubs down horses in a stable; groom.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike with a sweeping blow.
2. Informal. to steal:
3. to slide (a magnetic card) quickly through an electronic device that reads data.
4. Digital Technology. to move a finger or fingers, or a stylus, across an area on (a touchscreen) in order to execute a command:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a sweeping stroke.
2. to slide a magnetic card through an electronic device.
3. Digital Technology. to move the fingers across a touchscreen:

Origin of swipe

1730-40; akin to sweep¹; cognate with German schweifen

Examples for swipe

And if you don't cough up a thousand and let me go, I'll swipe anything in sight.

Still, how was he to know they were going to swipe his idea?

We are going through and looking for people that we would honestly ‘swipe right’ for.

Flawless skin, perfect hair, and bright white teeth are all just a swipe away.

“One swipe with a crowbar and he would have been down,” Sasha said.

The swipe I took at him should have swept him over, but he got his coils around me.

swipe, pass judgment, see who likes you and see if anyone likes you back.

Not that I swipe the whiskey, just sorry because I gets sick!

The crook then produces a MetroCard of his own and offers to swipe the would-be traveler through—for a premium price.

He goes to make a swipe at figure on other side of stairs—sees Rusty.