swipe
意味
- 大振りの打撃,強打
- …を大振りで打つ,強打する
- 《話》…を盗む,かっぱらう
- (…を)強打する《+at+名》
例文
Where do I swipe my card?
カードはどこで通せばいいのかしら？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move violently”), from Old English sweopian, swipian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn”). Cognate with German schwippen (“sway back and forth”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“riding crop, whip”). Related to sweep, swoop.