Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having smooth flowing curves.

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  • adjective Having a swooping shape

Etymologies

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swoop +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Up close, it's a trademark Gehry design, a mix of metals cladding "swoopy" shells covering a careful floor plan.

    Seattle's Purple Haze 2008

  • Like the CLS, the Shooting Break is a four-door, but with the same kind of swoopy design that evokes a traditional two-door shooting brake.

    Automotive Headlines dse@theautochannel.com 2010

  • The latest is a 76-story structure in lower Manhattan, the largest swoopy apartment building in the world.

    An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure Joe Queenan 2011

  • That stands in contrast to the swoopy styling of Hyundai Motor Co.'s Sonata sedan, which has emerged as one of the top competitors to the Camry.

    Toyota Pitches New Camry to Retain Sales Crown Mike Ramsey 2011

  • "There's a swoopy, somewhat incongruous Frank Gehry building in Millennium Park in Chicago," says a famous architecture critic who wishes to remain nameless for fear of being perceived as a revolting, disgusting philistine who ought to be hanged, drawn, quartered and then shot, but only after being blinded and flayed alive.

    An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure Joe Queenan 2011

  • You've probably noticed that Schenectady and Tallahassee don't have one of these swoopy buildings.

    An Architect's Blueprint for Overexposure Joe Queenan 2011

  • Bauhaus + beach: Low-lying hi-fi consoles, swoopy chairs, dude-ranch dresses, and those wonderful transparent "Case Study" houses up in the hills.

    Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun Peter Plagens 2011

  • This is very exciting news, although it gives me that swoopy stomach thing.

    A Brother By Any Other Name | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • The resulting console doesn't look like swoopy CAD seamlessness; rather, it's pure rococo, as if Super Mario were lumbering through an 18th-century French drawing room.

    Design of the Digital Age Tom Vanderbilt 2011

  • You caught the swoopy joy/anguish of a parent for a small child just toddling heedlessly into the world.

    Little Love (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010

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