Crossword clues for swoop
swoop
- Move like a hawk
- Hawk's maneuver
- Fly down suddenly
- Downward arc
- Descend suddenly
- Descend dramatically
- Attack like a hawk
- Zoom down
- Sudden dive
- Raptor's maneuver
- Pretty much the only word "fell" ever modifies
- Plunge suddenly
- One fell ___
- Move right (in)
- Make an air strike?
- In one fell ___
- In one fell __
- Hawks descent
- Falcon's attack
- Emulate a hawk e.g
- Eagle's maneuver
- Eagle's dip
- Eagle's attack
- Drop like a roc?
- Diving action
- Dive to catch a fish, maybe
- Dive through the air
- Dive quickly, like a bird
- Dive like an owl
- Dive dramatically
- Descend rapidly
- Descend like an eagle
- Come down on
- Attack like a raptor
- Come down in a hurry
- Plunge suddenly, as a hawk
- In one fell ___ (all at once)
- Hawk's descent
- Eagle's descent
- Attack like an eagle
- Hawk’s descent
- SWAT operation
- Bird of prey's dip
- What hawks do
- What birds of prey do
- A very rapid raid
- A swift descent through the air
- Rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- Swift descent
- Hawk's sudden move
- Speedy descent
- Part of an eagle's flight
- Sudden descent
- At one fell ___
- Fly like a bat
- Pounce suddenly
- Sudden drop in trade, nothing being imported
- Kestrel's dive
- Bawl out
- Come down hard
- Attack from above
- Emulate an eagle
- Dive like an eagle
- Fly like a hawk
- Dive like a hawk
- Take a dive, in a way
- Rapid descent
- Plunge like an eagle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swoop \Swoop\, v. i.
To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to stoop.
To pass with pomp; to sweep. [Obs.]
--Drayton.
Swoop \Swoop\, n. A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
The eagle fell, . . . and carried away a whole litter
of cubs at a swoop.
--L'Estrange.
Swoop \Swoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Swooping.] [OE. swopen, usually, to sweep, As. sw[=a]pan to sweep, to rush; akin to G. schweifen to rove, to ramble, to curve, OHG. sweifan to whirl, Icel. sveipa to sweep; also to AS. sw[=i]fan to move quickly. Cf. Sweep, Swift, a. & n., Swipe, Swivel.]
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
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To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
And now at last you came to swoop it all.
--Dryden.The grazing ox which swoops it [the medicinal herb] in with the common grass.
--Glanvill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "to move or walk in a stately manner," apparently from a dialectal survival of Old English swapan "to sweep, brandish, dash," from Proto-Germanic *swaip-, from PIE root *swei- (2) "to bend, turn" (see swivel (n.)). Meaning "pounce upon with a sweeping movement" first recorded 1630s (see swoop (n.)). Spelling with -oo- may have been influenced by Scottish and northern England dialectal soop "to sweep," from Old Norse sopa "to sweep." Related: Swooped; swooping.
1540s, "a blow, stroke," from swoop (v.). Meaning "the sudden pouncing of a rapacious bird on its prey" is 1605, from Shakespeare:\n\nOh, Hell-Kite! All? What, All my pretty Chickens, and their Damme, At one fell swoope? ["Macbeth," IV.iii.219]
Wiktionary
n. 1 an instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward 2 an act of rushedly doing something 3 (context music English) passing quickly from one note to the next vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive 2 (context intransitive English) to move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something 3 (context transitive English) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. 4 (context transitive English) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. 5 To pass with pomp; to sweep.
WordNet
n. (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides" [syn: slide]
a very rapid raid
a swift descent through the air
Wikipedia
Swoop may refer to:
Swoop is a clone of Galaxian written by David Elliot and published in the UK by Micro Power. It was first released on the BBC Micro in 1982 and ported to the Acorn Electron for its launch in 1983 and the Commodore 64 in 1984.
Swoop is a Belgian party band, with Filip D'haeze as lead singer. It was formed in 2001 and continued until 2006. Additional members included Iris Maschelein, Kim Gyselinck, Nathalie Taling. They were signed to RELI Records and starting 2005 ARS Entertainment.
The band was revived in 2010 after 4 years of break-up. It also had a newcomer in the 2010 set-up, namely Jolien Mory.
Swoop were an Australian seven-piece rock, funk and disco band established in 1991 by Joshua Beagley on guitar and keyboards, and Roland Kapferer on lead vocals, initially as a funk and rap duo. The duo were joined by Fiona Ta'akimoeaka on lead vocals, and in 1992 by Chris Brien on drums, Armando Gomez on percussion, Alex 'Gob' Hewettson on bass guitar, and Breadman St Ledger III on keyboards. Later members include drummer Calvin Welch and keyboard player Tetsushi Morita. After Ta'akimoeaka left the band, Rebekah Jane joined the group as lead vocalist.
Swoop signed issued three studio albums, Thriller (October 1993), Woxo Principle (November 1995), and Be What You Is (January 1999). Their most popular single, 1995's " Apple Eyes", reached No. 9 in Australia on the ARIA Singles Chart, and was certified gold by ARIA. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1994 Swoop were nominated for 'Best New Talent' for Thriller; at the 1996 awards they were nominated for 'Song of the Year' and 'Best Video' for "Apple Eyes", and for 'Best Pop Release' for Woxo Principle. Late in 1999 Swoop disbanded.
After Swoop, Beagley, Kapferer and Welch formed Professor Groove & the Booty Affair; with Sam Dixon on bass guitar and Robert Woolf on keyboards and vocals (later replaced by Richard Stanford on keyboards). They released their debut album, And so Funketh the Wise Man in 2001. Brien became a live and recording session musician, drum clinician and teacher; in November 2006 he relocated to Hong Kong.
The mascot Swoop is used to represent various sports organizations in the United States. One of the most notable mascots named Swoop is used by the NFL Football team the Philadelphia Eagles. Various American universities use the name Swoop as their athletic program mascots.
During the NFL regular season, Swoop regularly appears as an animated character in the weekly Eagles Kids Club television show. Since the show's debut in 2005, the animated version of Swoop has been serving as a host of this show.
Swoop made a cameo appearance in an NFL Shop commercial where a thief disguised as a kangaroo mascot tried to steal Philadelphia Eagles jerseys from the locker room after a game. Swoop walks into the locker room and the kangaroo tries to escape but the security guards catch it. Swoop also made a cameo appearance in the 1994 comedy film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, where Ventura beats the mascot after the latter shooed away an albino pigeon (which was worth a lot of money that Ventura wanted).
The "Swoop" character is depicted as an American bald eagle wearing a sports jersey of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Swoop is the mascot used to represent various sports organizations in the United States. Eastern Michigan University uses the mascot Swoop to represent the Eastern Michigan Eagles to represent its NCAA Division 1 Athletic program. EMU is one of several American universities use the name Swoop as their athletic program mascots. The "Swoop" character is sometimes depicted as an American bald eagle wearing an EMU sports jersey.
Swoop is a body-suit mascot for the University of Utah.
Usage examples of "swoop".
They were declared to be aerial torpedo-boats, and the aeronaut was supposed to swoop close to his antagonist and cast his bombs as he whirled past.
Just a little upthrust of the tail-elevators and ailerons brought them again into the horizontal in a huge swoop.
The light aluminium gondolas would have too bad a time in winds of this strength, particularly over the last great swoop of cable that brought them a good quarter of a mile over the exposed shoulder beneath the plateau.
Reluctantly the sliver of aluminium answered and Bond, inches from the top of the wall, found himself swooping down into blackness and then out again on to a moonlit straight.
It whirled around and swooped through the air, aiming straight at Ashake as she called it.
The Theodore Roosevelt let fly at once with the big guns in her forward barbette, but the shells burst far below the Vogel-stern, and forthwith a dozen single-man drachenflieger were swooping down to make their attack.
He cursed them for trying to make fools out of him and his friends, and then, spotting a flash from a Zak bazooka far off to his right, he put the Gundam into a high-speed swoop toward the Zaks around the ships, careful at the same time to avoid friendly gun and missile fire.
An egret perched on a nearby limb swooped down and caught the Bluegill before it even hit the water and took off for its nest, she supposed, where he and the egret-wife and birdlets would share a tasty dinner.
Still engaged with the first man, he avoided a lunge from Carabin and then, with the flashing swoop of a falcon, was away and entirely clear of Carabin.
But at the time, his only impressions as he came down the shuttle ramp in the smoke-dimmed early morning sun were of ravaged cityscape, the fighters swooping overhead as they expended their last missiles covering the landing and, above all, the sounds of battle.
For the first time in weeks, Anna shows up for ballet, cueing recorded music as Lindsay and four others swoop out as fireflies, then laughing as they leap and wings pop and molt onto the floor.
He snicked the Derailleur gears up five sprockets and stood on the pedals, swooping down towards the city centre on the traffic-free road, the cool morning air chilling the sweat of fear that had drenched him in that terrifying moment when it looked as if his well-laid plan had gone wrong.
It would be a long cold journey on the exposed saddle of the swoop to get back to where he had left Boba Fett and the girl Neelah.
It was wintertime clear enough, for there were no larks rising on the hills or swooping plovers--only big flocks of skimming grey fieldfares, and strings of honking geese passing south, and solemn congregations of bustards, and in the wet places clouds of squattering wildfowl.
The black spy eye, hovering just above the gated doorway all this time, now swooped to the open sash and disappeared into the rain.