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  • noun Plural form of swooper.

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Examples

  • (Welcome to everyone coming over from Sadly, No! The post Gavin referred you to, A whole passel of swoopers, is just below this one.

    Think Progress » Rove On Bush: ‘People Like Him, They Respect Him, He’s Somebody They Feel A Connection With’ 2006

  • "Writing in white heat, revising in cold blood" is the famous term related to swoopers.

    Banging And Swooping (And Fluffing) 2008

  • "Writing in white heat, revising in cold blood" is the famous term related to swoopers.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • I just finished grading two papers by students who are inveterate swallow swoopers.

    Is the Medium the Message? 2005

  • I just finished grading two papers by students who are inveterate swallow swoopers.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • The "air balls" were simply miniature swoopers of spherical shape, ultronically controlled by operators at control boards miles away, and who saw on their viewplates whatever picture the ultronic television lens in the sphere itself picked up at the predetermined focus.

    The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

  • Few of the Gangs west of the Alleghanies, however, had any swoopers, and though I was frequently reported, no attempts could be made to rescue me.

    The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

  • A few of their small rep-ray ships rose to meet our swoopers, but were battered down.

    The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

  • I ordered our swoopers, of which we had five, to sweep along above these ridges and destroy the Han batteries.

    The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

  • The next American move, I felt, would be the occupation of the air, from which they had driven the Hans, and from swoopers to direct the rocket fire at the city itself.

    The Airlords of Han Philip Francis Nowlan 1914

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