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noun

a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.

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Origin of swipe card

First recorded in 1980–85

Words nearby swipe card

swinish, swink, Swinnerton, swinney, swipe, swipe card, swipes, swipple, swirl, swirly, swish
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swipe card

noun

a credit card, identity card, etc, with a magnetic strip that holds encoded information that can be electronically interpreted as it is passed through the slot of a machine designed to read it
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