Usually means: Clean or mop with tool.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. swob: Merriam-Webster
  2. swob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. swob: Collins English Dictionary
  4. swob: Vocabulary.com
  5. swob: Wordnik
  6. swob: Wiktionary
  7. swob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. swob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. swob: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. swob: Dictionary.com
  11. Swob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. swob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. swob: Rhymezone
  14. Swob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. swob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. swob: FreeDictionary.org
  17. swob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. swob: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swob: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWOB: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. swob: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Swob)

noun:  Dated form of swab. [(medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.]
verb:  Dated form of swab. [(transitive) To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.]

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