- a variation of swap.
swop
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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swops,
present (3rd person singular)
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swopped,
past participle, past
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swopping
present participle
noun
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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swopsimple
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swopssimple
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have swoppedperfect
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has swoppedperfect
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am swoppingprogressive
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are swoppingprogressive
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is swoppingprogressive
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have been swoppingperfect progressive
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has been swoppingperfect progressive
Past
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swoppedsimple
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had swoppedperfect
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was swoppingprogressive
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were swoppingprogressive
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had been swoppingperfect progressive
Future
Example Sentences
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Adu and Farfan looking to swop places early on.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2012
When the week of chop, swop and barter closed, over 50% more business had been done than in the previous record year, 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
He reined up grandly, waved the hat in one long slow swop, bowed halfway down off the horse—a broad sweeping cavalier’s gesture.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
His spirits exhale with the heat of his passion, and all that, and, swop, he falls asleep, as you see.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
If their owners like to wop 'em, They to wop are masters; Or if they prefer to swop 'em, Here are our shin-plasters!
From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by Walsh, William Shepard
Every man thinks hiz nabor happier than he iz, but if he swops places with him he will want tew trade back next morning.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
Sudden upon the elmtree tops the crow Unceremonious visit pays and croaks, Then swops away.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by Clare, John
Betwin thy horse and mine, prithee, Tommy, what swops?
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Moorman, Frederic William
He comes round evenings and swops business lies with Pop, 'specially when Bee is here, but he can't be clever.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
Mr. Mellon and I chatted for a moment and swopped friendly boasts about how each of us had recently taken a ten-mile walk to keep fit.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a piece of warm sweet potato pie with some white fluffy stuff called whipped cream swopped all over the top of it.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
After we’d picked up our spoons and bowls a lady dug a big mess of oatmeal out of a giant pot and swopped it down into our bowls.
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
They swopped long prosy yarns about dull incidents, and I was very much bored.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland
"I hearn that you swopped tuther day with Dave Somer's an' the hoss died durin' of the night," said Jasper.
From The Starbucks by Read, Opie Percival
The friendship that had begun in England was quickly renewed, and soon both were laughing over the Prince's experiences on his tour and "swopping" impressions.
From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)
Mrs. Quackenboss was impressed; but the doctor smiled always a sphinx-like smile, and reiterated his belief in the unfitness of mid-stream as an ideal place for swopping horses.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Allen, Grant
We can get that in Swampville by swopping skins for it, or now an’ then some deer-meat.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
“Hannibal.”—Giving presents, with the hope of receiving presents in return, takes away awl the cream ov giving, or receiving, it is like swopping skim-milk, for milk that has bin skimd.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
"All you fellows think about is eating and drinking, and then smoking and swopping lies."
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard
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