blind swipe

noun

A quick, defensive tagging motion or sweeping attempt made by a player without directly looking at the runner or the ball.

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Meanings

nounblind swipe (plural blind swipes)

plural blind swipes

  1. hobbiesA quick, defensive tagging motion or sweeping attempt made by a player without directly looking at the runner or the ball.
  2. An act or instance of placing blame in a presumptuous manner.
verbblind swipe (third-person singular simple present blind swipes, present participle blind swiping, simple past and past participle blind swiped)

present singular third person blind swipes · participle present blind swiping · participle past blind swiped · past blind swiped

  1. transitiveTo blindside.

    "He (Bradshaw) wanted to take me out, and he did a good job,” said Matiasevich. “There was an outside berm and an inside berm. I was on the outside and he went to the inside, he jumped over the inside berm and T-boned me on the bank of the (outside) berm. He blindswiped me. […]"

    1992, Unattributed, “AMA Camel Supercross Series: Round 13 - Bradshaw Fined $500”, in Cycle News, page 16
Cite this entry
APA

blind swipe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blind%20swipe

MLA

“blind swipe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blind%20swipe. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blind swipe,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blind%20swipe.

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