DARPA Just Open Sourced All This Swish 'Dark Web' Search Tech

Lookout Google, Bing and Yahoo and all of the other top search engines, DARPA might just be shaking the foundations of search technology and introducing the means of a much better product to Internet users.

the project is so ambitious in its scope, it wants to shake up a staid search industry controlled by a handful of companies: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

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Did you just use swish as an adjective?

No, no I did not. That honor goes to the writer from Forbes. Don't shoot me, I'm just the piano player.

Mr. Perfect said:

Did you just use swish as an adjective?

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swish
swiSH/
verb
verb: swish; 3rd person present: swishes; past tense: swished; past participle: swished; gerund or present participle: swishing

1.
move with a hissing or rushing sound.
"a car swished by"
cause to move with a hissing or rushing sound.
"a girl came in, swishing her long skirts"
aim a swinging blow at something.
"he swished at a bramble with a piece of stick"
2.
Basketball
sink (a shot) without the ball touching the backboard or rim.

noun
noun: swish; plural noun: swishes

1.
a hissing or rustling sound.
"he could hear the swish of a distant car"
a rapid swinging movement.
"the cow gave a swish of its tail"
2.
Basketballinformal
a shot that goes through the basket without touching the backboard or rim.
3.
North Americaninformaloffensive
an effeminate male homosexual.

adjective
adjective: swish; comparative adjective: swisher; superlative adjective: swishest

1.
informaloffensive
(of a man) effeminate.
2.
Britishinformal
impressively attractive and fashionable.
"dinner at a swish hotel"

Ugh. I see you are technically correct, Time2kill, the Oxford Dictionary does have swish listed as an adjective, but good lord... It sounds like something some frat house bro would say, like using "clutch" in place of cool. Oh well, moving on.