Usually means: Change direction suddenly to avoid.
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  1. swerve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. swerve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swerve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. swerve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. swerve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Swerve (Transformers), Swerve (album), Swerve (drink), Swerve (film), Swerve (magazine), Swerve, The Swerve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swerve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swerve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  1. swerve, swerve: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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verb:  (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
verb:  To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
verb:  To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
verb:  To bend; to incline; to give way.
verb:  To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
verb:  To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
verb:  Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
verb:  To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
noun:  A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.
noun:  A deviation from duty or custom.
noun:  (cricket) Synonym of drift (“sideways movement imparted by spin bowler”)

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