verb, noun
verb [V]
1 [usually +adv./prep.] (of a bird or plane) to fly quickly and suddenly downwards, especially in order to attack sb/sth:
The aircraft swooped down over the buildings. * A hawk swooped low over the field.
2 ~ (on sb/sth) (especially of police or soldiers) to visit or attack sb/sth suddenly and without warning:
Officers swooped on the vehicles as they left the ferry.
Part of speech: noun
1 an act of moving suddenly and quickly through the air in a downward direction, as a bird does
2 ~ (on sth/sb) an act of arriving somewhere or attacking sth/sb in a way that is sudden and unexpected:
Large quantities of drugs were found during a police swoop on the star's New York home.
IDIOMS see FELLadj.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for swoop is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is swoop a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, swoop is tagged as noun.
Does swoop appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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