swop

[ swop ]

/ swɒp /

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verb (used with or without object), noun swopped, 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, verb swops, swopping or swopped

a variant spelling of swap

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