swoop

IPA: swˈup

noun

  • An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
  • A sudden act of seizing.
  • (music) A quick passage from one note to the next.

verb

  • (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
  • (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
  • (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
  • (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
  • (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
  • (Britain, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
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Examples of "swoop" in Sentences

  • What is often perceived as drifting can be their final "swoop" into the blocks.
  • MARTIN GONZALEZ, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE: What we call what we call the swoop and squat.
  • Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who is in charge of counter-terrorism policing nationally, said the swoop was a large-scale, pre-planned and intelligence-led operation involving several forces.
  • Bringing together employer and candidate in one fell swoop is pehaps a holy grail, and I’m afraid it will always be so – after all we are talking about people and personalities and god knows they clash much too often.

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