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swerve
verb- to avoid someone or something UK: SCOTLAND
From the conventional sense (to change direction abruptly); probably a shortening of BODY-SWERVE. - “I never saw ye at the meetin.” “Naw, Ah swerved it an went hame.” — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, 1985
- I’m too old and fat to be running around the streets and swerving Plod [the police] — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 121, 1999
- It’s the only gaff I know that’s given a wide berth by Mormons and completely swerved by door-to-door salesmen. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 176, 2000
- [I]f I’d seen him coming I would have swerved him. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 72, 2000
- to make a late change in your plans UK
Teen slang. - — Susie Dent, The Language Report, p. 78, 2003
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