swab /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte'
instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option
`conv=swab' (see {dd})] 1. vt. To solve the {NUXI
problem} by swapping bytes in a file. 2. n. The program in V7 UNIX
used to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to
it. See also {big-endian}, {little-endian},
{middle-endian}, {bytesexual}.