(~s, swiping, ~d)
1.
If you ~ at a person or thing, you try to hit them with a stick or other object, making a swinging movement with your arm.
She ~d at Rusty as though he was a fly...
He ~d 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 ~ at Andrew that deposited him on the floor.
N-COUNT
2.
If you ~ 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 ~ at a person or an organization, you criticize them, usually in an indirect way.
In a ~ at the president, he called for an end to ‘begging for aid around the world’.
N-COUNT
4.
If you ~ a credit card or ~ 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