ALL meanings of swipe
swipe
S s - noun swipe a strong, sweeping blow, as with a cricket bat or golf club. 1
- noun swipe Informal. a swing of the arm in order to strike somebody; punch. 1
- noun swipe a sideswipe. 1
- noun swipe Informal. a critical or cutting remark. 1
- noun swipe a leverlike device for raising or lowering a weight, especially a bucket in a well; sweep. 1
- noun swipe an act or instance of swiping: You can debit your checking account with just a swipe of your card. 1
- noun swipe Also called rubber. Horse Racing. a person who rubs down horses in a stable; groom. 1
- verb with object swipe to strike with a sweeping blow. 1
- verb with object swipe Informal. to steal: He'll swipe anything that isn't nailed down. 1
- verb with object swipe to slide (a magnetic card) quickly through an electronic device that reads data. 1
- verb with object swipe Digital Technology. to move a finger or fingers, or a stylus, across an area on (a touchscreen) in order to execute a command: Put your finger on the arrow and swipe the screen to the right to unlock your phone. 1
- verb without object swipe to make a sweeping stroke. 1
- verb without object swipe to slide a magnetic card through an electronic device. 1
- verb without object swipe Digital Technology. to move the fingers across a touchscreen: Swipe to the right to close the article. 1
- transitive verb swipe insert in a card reader 1
- transitive verb swipe hit, strike 1
- abbreviation SWIPE steal 1
- noun swipe swift blow 1
- verb swipe 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. 0
- verb swipe Swipe is also a noun. 0
- verb swipe If you swipe something, you steal it quickly. 0
- countable noun swipe If you take a swipe at a person or an organization, you criticize them, usually in an indirect way. 0
- verb swipe 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. 0
- verb swipe to hit hard with a sweeping blow 0
- verb swipe to steal 0
- verb swipe to pass a machine-readable card, such as a credit card, debit card, etc, through a machine that electronically interprets the information encoded, usually in a magnetic strip, on the card 0
- verb swipe to move a finger across a touchscreen on an electronic device as a means of inputting a command 0
- noun swipe a hard blow 0
- noun swipe an unexpected criticism of someone or something while discussing another subject 0
- noun swipe an instance of moving a finger across a touchscreen on an electronic device 0
- noun swipe a type of lever for raising and lowering a weight, such as a bucket in a well 0
- noun swipe a lever or handle 0
- noun swipe a hard, sweeping blow 0
- noun swipe a sweeping motion 0
- noun swipe a groom for horses, esp. at a racetrack 0
- verb transitive swipe to hit with a hard, sweeping blow 0
- verb transitive swipe to wipe with a sweeping motion 0
- verb transitive swipe to steal; pilfer 0
- verb transitive swipe to pass (a credit card or other magnetically encoded card) across or through an electronic device that reads it 0
- intransitive verb swipe to make a sweeping blow, stroke, or motion 0