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phraseswopswap also swop BrE [swapped, swapped, swapping] [swopped, swopped, swopping]
swap around
swap sth around/round to move two or more things so that each one is in the place the other one was in before: Jake poured orange juice into her glass and vodka and orange into his, then swapped them round when she wasn't looking. Have you been swapping the furniture around again?■ SIMILAR TO: swap over BrE
swap over 1. swap over if two people swap over, one starts doing the thing that the other one was doing before, or they change places so that one is sitting in the place where the other was sitting before: I'll play from this end first and then after a couple of games, we'll swap over. We shared the driving - I drove the first part of the journey up to Birmingham, and then we swapped over.■ SIMILAR TO: change over, switch over2. swap sth over BrE to move two things so that each one is in the place that the other one was in before: Sally always comes to school with her shoes on the wrong feet, and her teacher has to swap them over for her.■ SIMILAR TO: swap around/round
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