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There was no such thing as a hungry swiftie.

You cop a swiftie on this, and you're a fugitive from Law Cent!

If one swiftie was hungry, the whole rob was hungry.

Neat move, swiftie.

"Six minutes, swiftie."

"Swiftie, we have a lonely Aqui pool and a lonely kid furball," he said.

Something else is true of swifties - if a swiftie is hungry the whole rob's hungry.

Penny volunteered, "It's a Tom Swiftie."

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) ... as "Swiftie" Morgan (uncredited)

A Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.

Then the Open officials pulled a swiftie, calling off the day activities at 7:08 P.M. and informing the day customers to get the heck out of there, using language a bit more polite.

As most of us know by now, baseball pulled a swiftie a century ago when it turned a deceased Civil War general, Abner Doubleday, into the inventor of a sport he apparently never played or discussed.

These same Republicans never wanted investigations into missing W.M.D., why Congress passed a Medicare bill based on faulty figures, Abu Ghraib or even whether those Swiftie guys were lying, for Pete's sake.

SWIFTIE DEBATE Kerry partisans have denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who dispute the Democratic candidate's Vietnam heroism, as attack dogs financed by Bush partisans.

Mr. Preen (William H. Macy) is the salesman, neat as a pin-stripe suit and aggressively polite, who touts the virtues of the Swiftie Lux, as if it represented salvation itself, not just a higher electric bill.

And here's one I didn't cut . . . not just an adverb but a Swiftie: "Well," Mike said heartily . . . But I stand behind my choice not to cut in this case, would argue that it's the exception which proves the rule.

Yet Swifty had learned to make the best of any situation.

Swifty Bob and his fellows would be shocked at the idea of such a thing.

Raft agreed, though he didn't know why Swifty wanted them.

He returned to the shocking news that Swifty had wandered off, never to be seen again.

Swifty said with magnanimity and foresight, "Take care of me when you can."

Vance said she did not know the original, Swifty Morgan.

Swift (also called "Swifty") is ambitious and something of a rebel.

"The way she works a room makes Swifty Lazar look like a novice," he said.

In more common usage by these groups are the terms "Swift", or "Swifty".

Swifty (below) has the most historic name.

Both had beaten Cam Swifty in their previous meeting.

At some point, this kind of humor was called a Tom Swifty, and that name is now more prevalent though incorrect.

Firefighter Swift is known around the firehouse as Swifty.

"He was funny, Swifty was, and fun to be around, and listen to."

The sudden disappearance, and presumed demise, of Swifty is a matter of enduring mystery.

(Do not ask for Swifty - it will peg you as a Democrat.)

The title under which the Highfield used to be known till a few years back was "Swifty Bob's."

"On his deathbed, Rabbi Wise gave it to Swifty Morgan."

The Tom Swifty, then, is a parody of this style with the incorporation of a pun.

"Swifty" Bleek, the fat-faced hotel clerk, was the man at the desk.

Swifty may refer to:

Swifty Bleek was on duty at the desk when he saw The Shadow enter.

The play has Nixon expressing a similar sentiment to his agent, Swifty Lazar, and the effect is dissipated.

We weren't included on Swifty Lazar's guest list, but we were having fun anyway.

"We hope that Swifty is hiding out in some society family's home," Mr. Caravaggi said.