- 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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See Examples For:
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
I wish we could swop B—— for him.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
I hav seen poodles that i almost wanted tew swop places with, but the owners ov them didn’t akt to me az tho they wanted tew trade for enny thing.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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 Harold Bindloss
Betwin thy horse and mine, prithee, Tommy, what swops?
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman
Sudden upon the elmtree tops the crow Unceremonious visit pays and croaks, Then swops away.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
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 Henry W. Shaw
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
Marbles! no; I've swopped all my marbles with the little fellows, and cobnuts are no fun, you silly, only when the nuts are green.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
Why, I'd swopped that brooch with Tootie for a penknife ages ago.
From For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil
I don't imagine that it is a bad point to dissolve upon—at any rate, there is no swopping in such a crossing.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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 W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas) Newton
“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 Henry W. Shaw
The canvas-backed duck has been praised as highly as the “swopping, swopping mallard” of a comfortable college in Oxford.
From Lost Leaders by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge
He passed away most of his time on board in swopping watch lies with the other passengers and good-naturedly spoiling their Waterburys.
From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
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