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Look up: swoop

  1. Swoop
    Swoop is Black-American slang for 'to leave quickly'
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Swoop
    1) To dive down to a formation or individual in freefall. 2) To aggressively approach the landing area in order to produce a long, flat flare and an exciting landing
    Found on http://www.dropzone.com/safety/resources

  3. swoop
    [n] - (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale 2. [n] - a very rapid raid 3. [n] - a swift descent through the air 4. [v] - move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc 5. [v] - seize or catch with a swooping motion
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Swoop
    Swoop transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Swooped ; present participle & verbal noun Swooping .] [ Middle English swopen , usually, to sweep, As. swāpan to sweep, to rush; akin to German schweifen to rove, to ramble, to curve, Old High German sweifan to whirl, Icelandic sveipa to sw ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/260

  5. Swoop
    Swoop intransitive verb 1. To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop. 2. To pass with pomp; to sweep. [ Obsolete] Drayton.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/260

  6. Swoop
    Swoop noun A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping. « The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter of cubs at a swoop L'Estrange.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/260

  7. swoop
    slide noun (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; `the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. swoop
    noun a swift descent through the air
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Swoop
    `Swoop` may mean * A mascot for the U.S. NFL's Philadelphia Eagles; see Swoop (mascot) * A Transformers (toyline); see Swoop (Transformer) * A swoop bike * The Southwestern Ontario Organization of Parachutists * A parachuting manoeuvre; see Swooping (Parachuting) * The mascot for the Miami RedHawks of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio * A nickname given to a Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot * The Swoop, a novel by P. G. Wodehouse * , a software for ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoop

  10. Swoop
    • (n.) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken. • (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop. • (n.) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. • (v. i.) To pass with pomp; to sweep. • (n.) A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapac...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. swoop
    1. rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
    2. a very rapid raid
    3. a swift descent through the air

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