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swipe card
noun
- a plastic card with magnetically encoded data that is decoded when passed through a slotted electronic reader, especially for payment or identification purposes.
swipe card
noun
- a credit card, identity card, etc, with a magnetic strip that holds encoded information that can be electronically interpreted as it is passed through the slot of a machine designed to read it
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Word History and Origins
Origin of swipe card1
First recorded in 1980–85
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