swim v.
1. (US) in prizefighting, to lose a fight deliberately so as to benefit crooked gamblers [play on take a dive under dive n.1 ].
 | ‘Back Door Stuff’ 30 Oct. [synd. col.] A pretty good boxer, but they wanted him to ‘swim’ too much. |
2. (US prison) to conform to prison society.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Joint n.p.: The ‘keeper’ does not prepare the fish ahead of time for the ordeal that awaits them in the tank . . . new fish who do not learn immediately how to swim will undergo a devastating initiation rite [R]. |
3. (UK Black/gang) to be bleeding after being stabbed.
| ‘Next Up?’ 🎵 Back out my ting and make man swim. |
4. (UK Black/gang) as vtr, to stab a victim (to death), thus swimmer, a victim of knife crime.
| ‘No Hook’ 🎵 Chef, chef swim, dip man down make him drown in his blood. | |
| ‘Cool Kid’ 🎵 Splash, what a chinger / Turn them swimmer. |
In phrases
(UK Und.) to cheat an accomplice out of his share of the proceeds.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. 167/2: To make him swim for it – to cheat a companion out of his share of the plunder. | |
| Vocabulum. |
to be offered and to take an abundance of bribes.
| Volpone I i: When you do come to swim in golden lard, Up to the arms in honey. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues 47/1: to swim in golden grease (oil, lard, etc.), verb. phr. (old).— To ‘roll’ in bribes. |