SWIPES, sour or small beer. SWIPE, to drink.—_Sea.__A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.

SWIPEY (from SWIPES), intoxicated.

SWISHED, married.

SWIZZLE, small beer, drink.

SWOT, mathematics; also a mathematician; as a verb, to work hard for an

examination, to be diligent in one’s studies.—_Army._

This word originated at the great slang manufactory for the army, the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in the broad Scotch pronunciation of

Dr. Wallace, one of the Professors, of the word _sweat_.—_See Notes and

Queries_, vol. i., p. 369.

T, “to suit to a T,” to fit to a nicety.—_Old._ Perhaps from the

T-square of carpenters, by which the accuracy of work is tested.

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