1. swoop - Noun
2. swoop - Verb
To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.
To pass with pomp; to sweep.
A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. Sun Tzu
That was indeed to live- At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give! Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. Edwidge Danticat
If we giv up our minds tew little things we never shall be fit for big ones. I knew a man once who could ketch more flies with one swoop ov his hand than enny boddy else could, and he want good at ennything else. Josh Billings
Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in. Christine Vachon
One does not become a master diviner in a day. A forest is not made in a season. The swoop of an eagle has seen many seasons and floods... Nigerian Proverb