A sailor. Disparaging.

This term, frequently used by non-sailors to refer to sailors, is most likely a contraction of the term "swabbie" or "swabby", presumably derived from the notion of sailors "swabbing the deck". "Swabbie/y" is currently in use only among the elderly; "swab" is the more common term among young people.

Typically applied to sailors of the U.S. Navy.
When the ships come in, all the swabs come down to the bars to get drunk.
by osofuchi August 15, 2005
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Me: Bro, you comin out tonight?

Bro: Nah, I'd rather stay home and do something lame.

Me: Stop being a swab.
by Brolociraptor11 March 19, 2011
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an acronym for Shanked With A Bullet

Due to the superior feeling caused by stabbing someone with a knife in the gaming world, swab or swabbed is used to ridicule an opponent after an especially superior kill. Since a shank is essentially a pointed object, to swab someone basically means to shank them at range.
ch00bs4uc3: Dangit I died!
xXxNubSlayerxXx: Oh baby, you've just been swabbed!
by Omberto January 20, 2010
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U.S. Marine Corps term for a mop or a sailer--either of which can be used for cleaning the deck.
We saw several drunken swabs returning to their ship.
by ars64 March 9, 2006
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to take a left turn, usually in a car
"Swab a left" or just "swab it"
by Budman March 31, 2005
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To "swab" is to perform in the act of female masturbation, or to finger a female.

The past tense would be "Swabbed".
Ex.

Angela: "I'm so horny, I think I'm gonna go swab."

Marcus: "I was swabbing this girl the other day, and she totally had herpes!"

Jaime: "It smells like tuna in here!"
Katie: "Sorry...I just swabbed."
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When a cotton swab is inserted up your nose for medical testing (the rona).
Bro, I just got swabbed. I swear that swab touched my brain

Yo! I heard you got swabbed last week! You got the Kung flu?
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