swop

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verb (used with or without object), nounswopped, swop·ping,Chiefly British.

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How to use swop in a sentence

  • The men outside Hegarty's, smoking and swopping yarns with the Schoolmaster, watched him go.

    The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah Prichard
  • The canvas-backed duck has been praised as highly as the “swopping, swopping mallard” of a comfortable college in Oxford.

    Lost Leaders | Andrew Lang
  • All over the land men are eternally “swopping stories” at bars, and in the long, endless journeys by railway p. 187and steamer.

    Lost Leaders | Andrew Lang
  • Before the evening was over he made the discovery that “swopping” was a favourite pastime of the leisure hours of the Den.

    Follow My leader | Talbot Baines Reed
  • The horse-dealer still stuck to his old courses—coping, swopping, swearing—likely to outlive them all.

    The Fatal Cord | Mayne Reid

British Dictionary definitions for swop

swop

/ (swɒp) /


noun, verbswops, swopping or swopped
  1. a variant spelling of swap

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