transcription, транскрипция: [ swu:p ]
( swoops, swooping, swooped)
1.
If police or soldiers swoop on a place, they go there suddenly and quickly, usually in order to arrest someone or to attack the place. ( JOURNALISM )
The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car...
The drugs squad swooped and discovered 240 kilograms of cannabis.
VERB : V on n , V
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Swoop is also a noun.
Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry.
N-COUNT
2.
When a bird or aeroplane swoops , it suddenly moves downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement.
More than 20 helicopters began swooping in low over the ocean...
The hawk swooped and soared away carrying something.
VERB : V adv / prep , V
3.
If something is done in one fell swoop or at one fell swoop , it is done on a single occasion or by a single action.
In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.
PHRASE : PHR with cl