swipe

swipe, vb.

1. To strike or try to strike with a swinging blow (the cat swiped its claws across my hand).

2. To steal (the thief swiped the ring out of the display case).

3. To pass a card with a magnetic stripe through a machine that reads the stripe (I swiped my credit card through the pay phone’s reader and made my call). — Sometimes termed (in sense 3) wipe.

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