swift n.
(US Und./Aus.) a fast horse, used for getaways in the pre-motorcar era; or in horseracing.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | You Can’t Win (2000) 96: I [...] limped outside where I had an old ‘swift’ tied to a hitching rack. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | He who Shoots Last 204: I feel sure this is one day I can separate the swift from the dead. Do you wish to have something on him, Jack? |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
a stupid, sluggish person.
| , , | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |