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Definition of Swipers
1. swiper [n] - See also: swiper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swipers
Literary usage of Swipers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Liberty in America: Or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and by Charles Mackay (1859)
"Eight or ten men of the fighting club here, called " swipers," have been arrested,
and it is stated that one of the leaders, called Johnson, ..."
2. Life and Liberty in America: Or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and by Charles Mackay (1859)
"In Washington they have "swipers;"* in Philadelphia " Dead Rabbits ; " and in
... Eight or ten men of the fighting club here, called " swipers," have been ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... And the saints of the Welshman or Scot Are a couple of pitiful pipers, Both
of whom may just travel to pot, Compared with the patron of swipers, ..."
4. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"... Compared with that patron of swipers— St. Patrick of Ireland, my dear I He
came to the Emerald Isle On a lump of a paving-stone mounted; The steamboat ..."
5. Life and Liberty in America: Or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and by Charles Mackay (1859)
"Eight or ten men of the fighting club here, called " swipers," have been arrested,
and it is stated that one of the leaders, called Johnson, ..."
6. Life and Liberty in America: Or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and by Charles Mackay (1859)
"In Washington they have "swipers;"* in Philadelphia " Dead Rabbits ; " and in
... Eight or ten men of the fighting club here, called " swipers," have been ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... And the saints of the Welshman or Scot Are a couple of pitiful pipers, Both
of whom may just travel to pot, Compared with the patron of swipers, ..."
8. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"... Compared with that patron of swipers— St. Patrick of Ireland, my dear I He
came to the Emerald Isle On a lump of a paving-stone mounted; The steamboat ..."
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