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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
swop .
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Examples
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Her owner "swopped" her for an old Martini, the triumphant Padre married them and received him back to the bosom of Mother Church.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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It was for the first six I was to be "swopped," or rather had already been, for the bargain was concluded and the blacks were being delivered over to form part of the slaver's cargo.
Ran Away to Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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The system originally came with a 8800GT but we swopped this out with a 8800GTX that we had floating around.
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It's not hot, exactly - although if you swopped the male and female roles over, it sort of might be.
The Creepiest Story Ever Told juliette 2008
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It's not hot, exactly - although if you swopped the male and female roles over, it sort of might be.
Archive 2008-09-01 juliette 2008
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It was surprisingly easy--I swopped her up gently but firmly and with great authority, and just started clipping.
Archive 2006-01-01 Lisa B. 2006
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I didn't buy all the beers below, of course - on the Friday there were a bunch of us there Jrmy, Tim, Alex, Glynis, Dan, Deirdre, Ian, Mark, and others too and we swopped sips.
So the year turns again... jinty 2006
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Many servants supplied Food will be swopped for Oil Tokens of which there are many
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Health-e said some of the people who swopped had in fact died, while others who were paraded in public by the Rath Foundation had secretly been continuing their ARV treatment.
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The former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader who a newspaper columnist once said "impaled" her with his "blowtorch eyes", has swopped his dramatically delivered pro-racial segregation speeches and is now earning a living dispensing hints on how not to be negative.
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