French Police Net Nine In Anti-Terror Swoop

This headline from a Reuters Alertnet News Report completely took me by surprise. It caught my eye not because of the startling find of terrorists, but it was the startling lack of swoop usage in our world. Such an amazing word and yet we rarely see or hear it. Perhaps it's the definition that leaves it limited:

v
1. To move in a sudden sweep
The bird swooped down on its prey.

2. To make a rush or an attack with or as if with a sudden sweeping movement. Often used with down
The children swooped down on the pile of presents.

n
2. The act or an instance of swooping.

Or maybe it's that it's synonymns are more popular. Whatever the reason, it's an awful shame that we leave a word like swoop sitting on the bench. I propose a new definition:

Swoop:
n, v, adv, adj
1. The only word in the English language with a flexible definition.
It was the best of times. It was the swoop of times.

It was the swoop of times. It was the worst of times.

It was the best of times. It was the swoop of times.

Swoop was the best of times. Swoop was the worst of times.

It was swoop best of times. It was swoop worst of times.

It swoop the best of times. It swoop the worst of times.

It was the best of swoop. It was the worst of swoop.

It was the best swoop times. It was the worst swoop times.