Usually means: Rapid descent from above, snatch.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word swoop:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. swoop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swoop: Merriam-Webster
  3. swoop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swoop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swoop: Collins English Dictionary
  6. swoop: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swoop, swoop: Wordnik
  8. swoop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. swoop: Wiktionary
  10. swoop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. swoop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. swoop: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. swoop: Dictionary.com
  14. swoop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. swoop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Swoop (Australian band), Swoop (Belgian band), Swoop (Eastern Michigan University), Swoop (Philadelphia Eagles), Swoop (University of Utah), Swoop (airline), Swoop (disambiguation), Swoop, The Swoop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Swoop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. swoop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. swoop: Rhymezone
  20. swoop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. swoop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. swoop: FreeDictionary.org
  23. swoop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. swoop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. swoop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swoop: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. SWOOP: Acronym Finder
  3. swoop: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swoop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swoop: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SWOOP: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See swooped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
verb:  (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
verb:  (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
verb:  (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
verb:  (British, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun:  An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
noun:  A sudden act of seizing.
noun:  (music) A quick passage from one note to the next.

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