Crossword-Solution: SWABS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SWABS (5)
Kitchell's whisper was as faint as a dying infant's: “Steady all, s-stead-ee, sh-stead--” He lunged forward sharply with the gaff, and shouted aloud: “I got him--grab holt his tail flippers, you fool swabs; grab holt quick--don't you leggo--got him there, Charlie? If he gets away, you swine, I'll rip y' open with the gaff--heave now--heave--there--there--soh, stand clear his nippers.
Then came swabs and squilgees; and after the decks were dry, each one went to his particular morning job.
The wet and soiled clothes which had accumulated there during the past month, were brought up on deck; the chests moved; brooms, buckets of water, swabs, scrubbing-brushes, and scrapers carried down, and applied, until the forecastle floor was as white as chalk, and everything neat and in order.
Ain't one of you cussed swabs got decency enough to fetch me a drink? I'm dyin' for a drink, I tell you.
Even by gaslight the diversions are melancholy i’ the mouth—drink and rag-time, and an occasional surprise when the waiter swabs the suds from under your sticky glass.
Quotes with SWABS (2)
Wadsworth Moor Where the millstone of sky Grinds light and shadow so purple-fine And has ground it so long Grinding the skin off the earth Earth bleeds her raw true darkness A land naked now as a wound That the sun swabs and dabs Where the miles of agony are numbness And harebell and heather a euphoria
Doctors is all swabs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 88 times in crossword archives (1964–2024).