Usually means: Quickly descended and grabbed something.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. swooped: Merriam-Webster
  2. swooped: Collins English Dictionary
  3. swooped: Vocabulary.com
  4. swooped: Wordnik
  5. swooped: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. swooped: Wiktionary
  7. swooped: Dictionary.com
  8. swooped: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Swooped: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Swooped: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. swooped: FreeDictionary.org
  12. swooped: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. swooped: Idioms

(Note: See swoop as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (swoop)

verb:  (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
verb:  (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
verb:  (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
verb:  (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
verb:  (British, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
noun:  An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
noun:  A sudden act of seizing.
noun:  (music) A quick passage from one note to the next.
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