swerve v.
1. (Aus.) to practise coitus interruptus [motoring imagery: one ‘avoids a child’].
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | in Erotic Muse (1992) 297: Our school doctor, she is a beaut, / Teaches us to swerve when our boyfriends shoot. / It saves many marriages and forced miscarriages. |
2. (N.Z./US) to avoid.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Layer Cake 65: He’s on me before I know it, which is a drag cos if I’d seen him coming I would have swerved him. | |
| (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014 15: Cancel plans, fail to show up: ‘I had to swerve on him after he got weird’. |
3. (US) to leave.
| (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2014 15: SWERVE — leave a place: ‘He wouldn’t leave me alone last night at the club, so my friends told him to swerve’ . |