swop
Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
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
To this the former replied, "I'll swop my wick un for your dead un, and pay t' funeral expenses too!"
From Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How by How, Frederick Douglas
He was not inexorable; would have been willing enough to make the temporary swop, only wanted a quid pro quo.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
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