transcription, транскрипция: [ swaɪp ]
( 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’.
N-COUNT
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