swipe right in English

Forms: swipes right [present, singular, third-person], swiping right [participle, present], swiped right [participle, past], swiped right [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Etymology: In reference to Tinder (app), a software program for computer dating; users accept or reject potential matches by respectively swiping right or left on a touchscreen. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} swipe right (third-person singular simple present swipes right, present participle swiping right, simple past and past participle swiped right)

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Tinder (app), a software program for computer dating; users accept or reject potential matches by respectively swiping right or left on a touchscreen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swipes right",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swiping right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swiped right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swiped right",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "swipe right (third-person singular simple present swipes right, present participle swiping right, simple past and past participle swiped right)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "swipe left"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose to accept something."
      ],
      "id": "en-swipe_right-en-verb-oI1jskqk",
      "links": [
        [
          "choose",
          "choose"
        ],
        [
          "accept",
          "accept"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To choose to accept something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Tinder (app)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swipe right"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to Tinder (app), a software program for computer dating; users accept or reject potential matches by respectively swiping right or left on a touchscreen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swipes right",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swiping right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swiped right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swiped right",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "swipe right (third-person singular simple present swipes right, present participle swiping right, simple past and past participle swiped right)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "swipe left"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To choose to accept something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "choose",
          "choose"
        ],
        [
          "accept",
          "accept"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To choose to accept something."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Tinder (app)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swipe right"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"swipe right" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms