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switchesnounpl. of switch a long thin or flexible tool for strikingstruck the horse's hide with a leather switch, and it took off at a gallop floggers, lashes, scourges, whips birches, blacksnakes, bullwhips, cat-o'-nine-tails, cowhides, crops, hickories, knouts, quirts, rattans, rawhides, strapsbastinadoes(or bastinades), batons, bats, billies, billy clubs, bludgeons, canes, clubs, cudgels, flails, nightsticks, staffs(or staves) a quick jerky movement from side to side or up and downthat telltale switch of the cat's tail meant there was a mouse under the piano swishes, waggles, wags, whisks oscillations, rocks, sways, swings, waversflaps, flutters, waves, whipsflicks, jerks, jolts, snaps, twitchesjiggles, shakes, wigglesbobs, nods a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrumentin frustration, he gave the mule a sharp switch on the rump, but it still wouldn't budge bangs, bashes, bats, beats, belts, biffs, blows, bops, boxes, buffets, busts, chops, claps, clips, clouts, cracks, cuffs, dabs, douses(British), fillips, hacks, haymakers, hits, hooks, knocks, larrups(dialect), lashes, licks, pelts, picks, plumps, pokes, pounds, punches, raps, slams, slaps, slugs, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, stingers, stripes, strokes, swats, swipes, thuds, thumps, thwacks, wallops, welts, whacks, whams, whops(also whaps) counterblows(or counter-blows), counterpunches, counters, counterstrokes(or counter-strokes)body blows, hands, kicks, knees, lefts, one-twos, rabbit punches, right-handers, rights, roundhouses, shivers, sidewinders, sucker punches, swings, uppercutscrunchers, kayos, knockdowns, knockouts, KOsbastinadoes(or bastinades), batterings, beatings, drubbings, lickings, pastings, thrashingswallopings, whippings, whips switchesverbpresent tense third-person singular of switchto give up (something) and take something else in returnswitched the real grapes for fake ones switched the day of his flight from Thursday to Friday changes, commutes, exchanges, shifts, substitutes, swaps, trades interchangesdisplaces, replaces, supersedescedes, hands over, surrenders, yieldsreciprocates to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motionscows lazily switching their tails and chewing their cud swishes, waggles, wags oscillates, rocks, sways, swings, waversbeats, flails, flaps, flops, lashes, whipsflickers, flicks, flutters, wavesjerks, joltsjiggles, jigs, joggles, shakes, twitches, wigglesbobs, jogs, nods to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexibleswitched the stagecoach horses to control the direction they took birches, cowhides, flagellates, flails, flogs, hides, horsewhips, lashes, leathers, rawhides, scourges, slashes, tans, thrashes, whales, whips knouts, quirts, strapscutsflicks, touches upblackjacks, canes, clubs, cudgels, fustigatespistol-whipsbangs, bops, boxes, busts, claps, clips, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cuffs, hits, knocks, lams, pastes, punches, slaps, slugs, smacks, smites, socks, spanks, swats, swipes, thwacks, wallops, whacksbashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, bludgeons, buffets, bungs, drubs, fibs(British), hammers, laces, lambastes(or lambasts), lathers, licks, mangles, mauls, paddles, pelts, pommels, pounds, pummels, roughs, slates, slogs, threshes, thumps, tromps, whops(or whaps), whups, works over to change (as an opinion) to the contrarya politician who has switched his position on a number of issues reverses abrogates, annuls, overturns, repeals, rescinds, revokes, strikes downabout-faces, backtracks, countermands, reverts maintains, supports, upholds to strike repeatedlythe loose rigging switched the mast during the storm bashes, bastes, bats, batters, beats, belabors, belts, birches, bludgeons, buffets, bungs up, clubs, curries, does, drubs, fibs(British), flogs, hammers, hides, laces, lambastes(or lambasts), lashes, lathers, licks, mauls, messes (up), paddles, pelts, pommels, pounds, pummels, punches out, roughs (up), slates, slogs, tans, thrashes, threshes, thumps, tromps, wallops, whales, whips, whops(or whaps), whups, works over assails, assaults, attacks, besets, boxes, busts, chops, clobbers, clouts, cracks, cudgels, cuffs, descends (on or upon), hits, jumps (on), knocks, lams, lays on, pastes, pounces (on or upon), punches, raids, rushes, slams, slaps, smacks, smashes, socks, spanks, storms, swats, swipes, thwacks, whacks, whams, whompsblackjacks, canes, cowhides, flagellates, fustigates, horsewhips, leathers, pistol-whips, rawhides, scourges, strapsgores, lacerates, woundsmaims, mangles, mutilates beats up on |