Swipe

Definition: Swipe

Swipe

Noun

1. A sweeping stroke or blow.

Verb

1. Strike with a swiping motion.

2. Make off with belongings of others.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swipe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references)

Note: Swipe \Swipe\, noun. [Compare to Sweep, Swiple.]. (references)

Synonyms: Swipe

Crosswords: Swipe

Frisian (whip).

I leapt to Saki's face, biting and clawing, but he threw me to the floor and took one swipe with his Katana, slicing my ear. Then he was gone, and I was alone (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

Give Mr. Snipa's wife's knife a swipe. (references; author: unknown)

De Gouden swipe (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Great Giant Swipe File (reference)

• The Great giant swipe file : over 3,000 pictures which can be used without fee or permission (reference)

• The Proposal Writer's Swipe File: Fifteen Winning Fund-Raising Proposals...Prototypes of Approaches, Styles, and Structures (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Swipe Me [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ending with "swipe": side-swipe.

Albanian

shpullë (clip, clout, slap, wallop), goditje e fortë (oner, slog, slug, smacker, snifter, staggerer, stinger, swat, swinger, thump, wallop), godit fort (slog, strike with force, swat, swinge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لكمة (belt, chap, jab, knocking, punch, sock, swing, uppercut, wallop), ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, thieve, walk off with), ‏ضربة عنيفة (bang, bash, knock, knockdown, slam, smack, smash, swat, thwack, wallop, whack), ‏ضربة على الرأس, ‏ضرب على الرأس (crown), ‏ضرب بعنف (bang, bash, baste, lambaste, maul, slam, smite, swat, thump, whack, whale), ‏صفعة (cake, clap, cuff, slap, slat, smack, thwack, uppercut). (various references)

Bulgarian 

удрям силно и безразсъдно, силен удар (biff, clip, lick, plunk, slog, slosh, smacker, smasher, sock, stinger, thump, wallop, welt, welter, whammy, whang, whop), отмъквам (carry away, collar, drag off, pilfer, pinch, rip off, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, whip off), неточен удар, задигам (bag, carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, mooch, nip, pinch, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, walk off with), безразсъден удар. (various references)

Chinese 

重击 (smite, Smiting, smitten, Smote, thump, Whack, Whacked, Whacking). (various references)

Czech

výpad (drive, lunge, pass, Sally, sortie, thrust), udeřit (bang, fillip, hit, impinge, knock, punch, strike), rána (bang, bash, biff, blow, bounce, clout, hit, knock, rap, report, shock, shot, slap, slash, sock, strike, stroke, whack, whang, wound), praštit (bash, belt, bust, catch, fling, hit, hurl, knock, slosh, slug, strike), odpálení (launch), úder (beat, blow, buffet, bump, chop, coup, dash, hit, percussion, push, rap, shock, stroke, thrust), šlohnout (bag, sneak). (various references)

Dutch

veegmonster uit hete cel (swipe from hot cell). (various references)

Farsi 

کش رفتن (Abstract, Cabbage, Nip, Palm, Pilfer, Prig, Snip, Snitch), حرکت جاروبی , ضربه تندوشدیدزدن , ضربت سخت (Concussion, Shock, Slog), جرعه طولانی . (various references)

French

swing (swing), piquer (swoop), frapper � toute volée, flanquer, filouter, faucher, chiper, calotter, calotte, baffe, adjuger. (various references)

German

stibitzen (pilfer, pinch), krallen (clamp, claw, claws, pinch, talons), klauen (claws, crib, filch, hoofs, lift, Nick, pilfer, pinch, shoplift, snitch, steal, to shoplift, to snitch, to swipe), grapschen (grab, pinch). (various references)

Greek 

κλέπτω (cop, crib, defalcate, embezzle, kidnap, purloin, rifle, scrounge, snitch, steal, thieve), κτυπώ γερά, κτυπώ δυνατά (bash, slam, slog, slug, sock, whack), σουφρώνω (curl, nab, nobble, pilfer, pinch, pucker, shirr), χτυπώ γερά, χτυπώ δυνατά (slam, sock, whack), δυνατό κτύπημα (sock). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחבוט (bang, beat off, flail, knock, mill, pound, smack, strike down, stroke, swat, thrash, thrust down, thump, thwack), ל�"כות (affict, beat, defeat, flap, hit, hurt, kill, knock, plaque, smite, strike, stroke, wound). (various references)

Hungarian

nyomókar, kútgém (sweep), erős ütés (bash, clunk, crump, heavy blow, slog, slug, soak, thump). (various references)

Indonesian

gondol, gait (purloin, steal, wheedle), cacak (pinch, upright, vertical). (various references)

Italian

rubare (abstract, heist, lift, maraud, Nick, pinch, purloin, rape, rob, rustle, snatch, steal, stolen, take, thieve), colpire con forza, schiaffeggiare; sgraffignare, colpire (affect, bang, beat, buffet, bump, catch, clout, damage, dazzle, hit, jab, knock, Lam, pelt, poke, pound, punch, rap, run across, shock, shoot, slap, smite, sock, spear, strike, strike down, swat, thwack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掻っ払う (to swipe, to walk off with). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かっぱらう (to swipe, to walk off with). (various references)

Korean 

강타 (bang, Bangs, bash, Bashing, Clout, smite, Smiting, swat, Swiping, thump). (various references)

Manx

flippal, flip (fib, lie, thwack, whisk, whisk of tail). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipesway.(various references)

Portuguese

roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, nab, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, prig, purloin, rifle, rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, take away, thieve), pancada violenta (smasher, sockdolager, wallop), pancada forte (slog, smeller, thwack, welt, wipe), furtar (cabbage, dodge, filch, nab, prey, prig, purloin, rob, scrounge, shoplift, snoop, steal, thieve), bater fortemente, balanceiro (fly). (various references)

Romanian

loviturã puternicã (crack, oner, whack), lovi cu putere (smash, whack), beţivan (drunkard, soaker, sot). (various references)

Russian 

ударять тумак, сильный удар (bang, bash, biff, clip, humming blow, lick, pelt, plunk, polt, slog, staggerer, swinger, thwack, wallop, whack), красть (abstract, crib, lift, pilfer, purloin, rustle, snitch, steal), ворот (capstan, collar, crab, hoist, neckband, wheel and axle, winch, windlass). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

snažan udarac, ukrasti (filch, finger, lift, pilfer, purloin, rob, snitch, steal, thieve, walk off with), udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, conk, drive in, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, wallop, whack). (various references)

Spanish

pegar (affix, attach, beat, beat up on, belt, catch, cement, fasten, give, glue, hang, have, hit, knock about, Lam, live through, paste, paste up, plug, post, pump, put up, roam, sew, sew on, slap, slosh, slug, smack, sock, stick, stick down, stick on, stick together, strike, tag on, take, thrash, tie on, touch, trounce, welt), golpear fuertemente (pelt at), golpe fuerte (coup, drive, staggerer, swat, swinger), apandar (rip off). (various references)

Swedish

slå till (buffet, bust, clout, crack, cuff, jab, knock, pull up, slug, sock, strike, switch on, wallop). (various references)

Thai

ตีอย่างแรง (shock, slug, sock, swot). (various references)

Turkish

tokatlamak (box, cuff, slap, smack, sock, swindle, trick out of), kuvvetli vuruş, kuvvetle vurmak, hızla vurmak, geçirmek (bash, carry, come through, communicate, conduct, Dot, dot smb. one, extrude, fetch, get over, get through, make pass, outstay, pass, pass away, pass on, post, put in, reach, scarf, screw, see off, see smb. to the door, show smb. to the door, slip, spend, spin out, stick, take in, transfer, transmit, undergo, while away, wile away, work out), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

сильний удар (bang, bash, lick, oner, pelt, plunk, slam, slog, spanker, staggerer, swat, swinger, wallop), той, хто завда�" сильного удару, красти (appropriate, borrow, cabbage, gyp, mooch, nim, plunder, poach, purloin, snip, steal, thieve), коромисло (balk, rocker, yoke), бити щосили. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swipe": swiped, swipes. (additional references)

Words ending with "swipe": sideswipe. (additional references)

Words containing "swipe": sideswiped, sideswipes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swipe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asswiper, Cswip, Dwipa, scipe, shipe, siep, sipa, sipi, sippe, skipe, swabe, swappen, swepe, swide, swife, swip, swiper, swipu, swire, swite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wipes.

-1 letter: pews, pies, sipe, spew, wipe, wise, wisp.

-2 letters: pes, pew, pie, pis, psi, sei, sew, sip, wis.

-3 letters: es, is, pe, pi, si, we.

+1 letter: pewits, swiped, swipes, swiple, wipers, wisped.

+2 letters: cowpies, inswept, peewits, spewing, swiples, swipple, tawpies, waspier, weepies, whisper, wimples, winesop, wispier.

+3 letters: impowers, palewise, pawkiest, periwigs, pigweeds, pinwales, pinweeds, previews, purviews, slipware, stepwise, swampier, sweepier, sweeping, swinepox, swipples, warpwise, waspiest, wasplike, weepiest, weepings, whimpers, whippers, whippets, whispers, whispery, wickapes, wicopies, wimpiest, wineshop, winesops, wipeouts, wiretaps, wispiest, wisplike, writeups.