Crossword-Solution: SWAB 4 letters, 270 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Swab n. To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after
washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
Swab n. A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels,
etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.
Swab n. A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle,
for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to
deep-seated parts, etc.
Swab n. An epaulet.
Swab n. A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
Swab n. A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod
or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.

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Word Anagrams
SWAB anagram BAWS, BSAW

We have 270 clues for the answer “SWAB”

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"Avast!" responder 1 answer
Cotton-tipped stick for cleaning or collecting samples 1 answer
Item used by a nurse to take a throat sample 1 answer
Absorbent stick 1 answer
Acquisition of a DNA specimen 1 answer
Aid for collecting some samples 1 answer
Aussie's "ear bud" 1 answer
Bit of cotton on a stick 1 answer
Brush for cleaning a gun barrel 1 answer
COVID test component 1 answer
CSI's DNA collector 1 answer
Cheek brusher 1 answer
Clean a deck 1 answer
Clean a wound 1 answer
Clean an orlop 1 answer
Clean decks 1 answer
Clean the decks 1 answer
Clean the orlop 1 answer
Clean the poop deck 1 answer
Clean with a mop 1 answer
Clean, as decks 1 answer
Clean, as floors or decks. 1 answer
Clean, as the Pequod or Bounty 1 answer
Clean, as the poop deck 1 answer
Clear, as the deck 1 answer
Collector of some evidence 1 answer
Cosmetics applier 1 answer
Cotton stick 1 answer
Cotton-tipped applicator 1 answer
Cotton-tipped cleaner 1 answer
Cotton-tipped device 1 answer
Cotton-tipped ear cleaner 1 answer
Cotton-tipped item 1 answer
Cotton-tipped item in a makeup bag 1 answer
Cotton-tipped product 1 answer
Cotton-tipped stick 1 answer
Crack Up song to mop to? 1 answer
Crime lab item 1 answer
Criminal investigator's stick 1 answer
Culture transferer 1 answer
DNA collection stick 1 answer
DNA collector, perhaps 1 answer
DNA collector, sometimes 1 answer
DNA kit tool 1 answer
DNA lab item 1 answer
DNA sample collector 1 answer
DNA sample tool 1 answer
DNA test kit item 1 answer
DNA-sample collector 1 answer
DNA-sampling tool 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with SWAB (5)

Where a crew of seven men have to work a fair-sized ship the loss of two experienced seamen is a serious one, for though the negroes may take a spell at the wheel or swab the decks, they are of little or no use in rough weather.
The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
After half an hour with a swab or a bucket, he feels himself as secure as if he had paid for his passage.
Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
This man was afflicted with a syphilitic affection of the mouth, and he constructed a swab ten inches long with which to cleanse his fauces.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Jes' lay to that, you swab, or so 'elp me I'll take a pull on your peak-purchases!" Kent was so nervous that it took three puffs to blow out the slush-lamp, and he crawled into his blankets without even removing his moccasins.
The God of His Fathers Jack London 2005
Scoop, and scrape, and scoop, and scrape; then put a cloth on your oldest broom, pour lots of water on, pail after pail, and swab! When you've swabbed till it won't do any more good, then scrub! After that, I shouldn't wonder if you had to fan the floor with a newspaper or it'll never get dry before father comes home.
The Story of Waitstill Baxter Kate Douglas Wiggin 2008

Quotes with SWAB (3)

It as mathematical, marriage, not, as one might expect, additional; it was exponential. This one man, nervous in a suite a size too small for his long, lean self, this woman, in a green lace dress cut to the upper thigh, with a white rose behind her ear. Christ, so young. The woman before them was a unitarian minister, and on her buzzed scalp, the grey hairs shone in a swab of sun through the lace in the window. Outside, Poughkeepsie was waking. Behind them, a man in a custod…
Lauren Groff Fates and Furies
In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful. The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casua…
Steven Pressfield The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
I regret always writing, writing. I gave my kid the whole plastic bag of marshmallows, so i could have 20 minutes to write. I sat at my mother's deathbed, writing. I did swab her mouth with water, and feel her pliant tongue enjoy water, then harden and die. Before I had language, before I had stories, I wanted to write. That desire is going away. I've said what I have to say. I'll stop and look at things I called distractions. Become a reader of the world, no more writer of it.
Maxine Hong Kingston I Love a Broad Margin to My Life
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 380 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).