swing by/past (somewhere)
Definition
› to briefly go somewhere, esp. on your way to another place: I told Paul we’d swing by his place around 7:30. We can swing past the store on the way to the party.
(Definition of swing by/past (somewhere) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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