swipe

vt. 猛击；偷窃；刷…卡

n. 猛击；尖刻的话

vi. 猛打；大口喝酒

中文词源

swipe 重击，猛打，刷卡

可能来自 sweep 拼写变体，引申词义重击，猛打，以及刷磁卡，刷信用卡等。

swipe: swipe: see sweep
swipe (v.): 1825, "strike with a sweeping motion," from swipe (n.). The slang sense of "steal, pilfer" appeared 1885, American English; earliest use in prison jargon:
The blokes in the next cell, little Charley Ames and the Sheeney Kid, they was hot to try it, and swiped enough shoe-lining out of shop No. 5, where they worked, to make us all breeches to the stripes. ["Lippincott's Magazine," vol. 35, June 1885]
Meaning "run a credit card" is 1990s. Related: Swiped; swiper; swiping.
swipe (n.): 1807, "a driving stroke made with the arms in full swing," perhaps a dialectal variant of sweep (n.), or in part from obsolete swip "a stroke, blow" (c. 1200), from Proto-Germanic *swip-, related to Old English swipu "a stick, whip; chastisement." Other possible sources or influences are Middle English swope "to sweep with broad movements" (in reference to brooms, swords, etc.), from Old English swapan; obsolete swaip "stroke, blow;" or obsolete swape "oar, pole."

1、sweep + wipe.2. sweep => swipe: 打扫、打扫不就含有“打”字吗？所以很显然与“打”有关、打扫的动作本身就含有“打”的感觉。通过拍打物体、把其上的灰尘卷走。