Clues for the word "SWAB"
We've had 184 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 433 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on May 14, 2026.
Definition of swab
- n. - To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
- n. - A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.
- n. - A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.
- n. - An epaulet.
- n. - A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
- n. - A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.
Referring Clues
- Med lab specimen
- Q-Tip
- Tar
- Q-Tip, for one
- Use a mop
- Nurse's item
- Clear the deck?
- Sailor's mop
- Matey
- Do the deck
- Medium for a medical sample
- Culture transferer
- Mop
- Forensic evidence collector
- Q-Tip, e.g.
- Gun barrel cleaner
- Do a salt's job
- What tars do to decks
- Deck cleaner
- Tidy up topside
- Seaborne lackey
- Shipboard mop
- Ear cleaner
- Clean the deck
- Wash the deck
- Popeye's mop
- Mop up
- Cotton-tipped cleaner
- "Avast!" responder
- Sailor
- Marine's mop
- Hit the deck?
- Mate with a mop
- Clean, as a deck
- DNA collector, perhaps
- Wash, in a way
- Tar (m)
- Work on the deck
- Use a Q-tip
- Mop, as the deck
- Wield a mop
- Ointment applicator
- Nautical mop
- Tar's mop
- Mariner's mop
- Clean a deck
- Specimen collector
- Deck scrubber
- Firearm bore cleaner
- Q-tip tip
- Cotton product
- Do tar work
- Mop the deck
- Deck washer
- Gun or ear cleaner
- Mop, as a deck
- Hand mop?
- Ear-cleaning implement
- Clean, as the Pequod or Bounty
- Crime lab item
- Clean decks
- Hit the deck with a mop
- Clean the orlop
- DNA-sampling tool
- Do a deck?
- Medicine cabinet item
- Cosmetics applicator
- Cosmetics applicator
- Mop the floor
- Mop the decks
- Clear the decks?
- Q-tip end
- Clear the decks
- Q-tips end
- Cotton wad
- Do the decks
- Bit of cotton on a stick
- Ear-cleaning device
- Clean the decks
- Aussie's "ear bud"
- Mate's mop
- Clean, as the poop deck
- Mop decks
- Cotton-tipped stick
- Work on a deck
- Do a deck hand's job
- Medical sample
- Criminal investigator's stick
- Cotton on a stick
- Q-tip, say
- DNA lab item
- Mop onboard
- Mop for a deck
- Aid for collecting some samples
- Wad of absorbent material
- Crow's nest figure
- Absorbent stick
- Crime lab tool
- Forensic investigator's item
- Wound cleaner
- One standing on deck
- 23 Across cleaner
- Maritime mop
- Deckhand
- Deck mop
- Applicator
- Navy enlistee, informally
- DNA-sample collector
- Mop, as ship decks
- It's cotton-tipped
- Mop, as decks
- Make shipshape, as a ship
- DNA collection stick
- 31 Across implement
- Shipboard resident
- Lowly navy person
- Floor mop
- Sailor, or a sailor's implement
- Large mop
- Slangy sailor
- Dab
- Cotton ___ (Q-Tip)
- A Q-tip, for one
- Crack Up song to mop to?
- It's used to clean edges of surgeon's instrument - Boatman closes it
- Cloth for cleaning wounds
- Cotton wool mop
- Directions sailor needed to clean deck
- Absorbent surgical pad
- Surgical cleaner
- DNA kit tool
- Small pad for surgical use
- Clean (a wound)
- Lubber employed at the theatre
- Piece of fabric for medical use
- Wound-cleaning cotton ball
- Southern state beginning to bargain - a washout?
- Specimen given by western sailor after bit of surgery
- Clear the deck?
- Cotton ___ (ear-cleaning device)
- Cleaning tool
- Sailor, informally
- Deck disinfector
- Take a mop to
- Lubberly ways, to a seaman
- Salt
- Tool for taking a DNA sample
- Q-tip, for example
- Marine mop
- Clear the decks?
- Acquisition of a DNA specimen
- Stick in a cabinet, say
- DNA collector
- Deckhand's tool
- Makeup-applying aid
- Stick in a genealogy kit
- Clean with a mop
- Cotton-tipped product
- Clear, as the deck
- Cotton ___
- Multi-purpose cotton wad
- Was preparing a little breakfast while you wash
- Cotton-tipped item
- DNA test kit item
- Cotton-tipped ear cleaner
- Lubber doing a clean-up job
- Small cotton-tipped stick
- Surgical pad
- Cotton-tipped item in a makeup bag
- It may have a Q-Tip tip
- Clean, as decks
- Sample collector
- Makeup corrector
- Stick with a soft tip
- Stick in a test kit
- Home test kit component
- Part of a rapid COVID test
- Lowly deckhand
- Covid test component
- Q-tip, for instance
- A Q-Tip is one
- Test kit item
- Do a spit take?
- DNA sample implement
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 14, 2026
- New York Times - May 10, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 27, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 22, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 15, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 10, 2026
- Daily American - March 07, 2026
- Daily American - February 21, 2026
- Daily American - December 25, 2025
- Daily American - December 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 18, 2025
- LA Times - October 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 12, 2025
- Daily American - August 30, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 22, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 03, 2025
- Daily American - June 03, 2025
- New York Times - May 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 07, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 05, 2025
- LA Times - April 18, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 06, 2025
- Family Time - February 24, 2025
- Daily American - February 24, 2025
- Family Time - February 23, 2025
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