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  • verb Present participle of swop.

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Examples

  • Before the evening was over he made the discovery that "swopping" was a favourite pastime of the leisure hours of the Den.

    Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • Ai gruu up wib mlik deliberd bai a hawrs nd derry cart; teh hawrs knu wair tu go nd wuz left awn himz own tu go daon teh streat wile teh “driber” ran to nd fro, swopping emptees fur full wunz, hows tu hows !

    2 kapchur da cheezburger - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Introductions were made, people swopping name, blog-name and craft.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Penny 2009

  • Introductions were made, people swopping name, blog-name and craft.

    The bloggery picnic report Penny 2009

  • Anyhow I have written a lot again today, can, t shed the feelings of responsibility., so to keep Wilhelm happy I am going to a boxing match where at least I can understand the swopping of blows, have good weekend.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • You can just imagine the camera swopping up from below with a beating score and straight into the face of a windswept Gabriel Macht who in a gritty voice-over tells us how the women in his life are causing him trouble.

    My Poster Screams of THE SPIRIT! | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • Since we liked some of the same things, we got to swopping book recommendations.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

  • Since we liked some of the same things, we got to swopping book recommendations.

    Cover art, part 2 Carla 2006

  • Brother suggested swopping the 2000AD mat (with some very high-contrast white bits, but mostly pretty dark) for a much more general mat with less in the way of sudden radical discontinuity (still some round the edges, mind you).

    wriggly thing in hair jinty 2005

  • There were pillars, shadows, memorial brasses, boys scuffling and swopping stamps behind Prayer Books; the sound of a rusty pump; the Doctor booming, about immortality and quitting ourselves like men; and

    The Waves 2003

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