The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SWOP
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More clues leading to the result SWOP
- Slap down local prisoners returning
- Exchange prisoners from the east
- Exchange some in stalag sent back?
- Exchange prisoners sent up
- Exchange prisoners of hostile power in return
- Exchange in prisoners recalled
- Traffic officer heading off after opponents
- Exchange prisoners of war in turn
- Exchange of prisoners rejected
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What does SWOP mean?
SWOP verb- To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else).
- To hit, to strike.
- To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.
- To descend or fall; to rush hastily or violently.
- An exchange of two comparable things.
- A financial derivative in which two parties agree to exchange one stream of cashflow against another stream.
- Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
- A blow; a stroke.
- A fusion of swing and hip-hop dance styles.