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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swat
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
▪ He had dismissed her from his mind as he would swat away a troublesome fly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider, she may swat you by mistake.
▪ But just as the buzzer sounds, an impossibly tall defender leaps and swats aside your shot.
▪ Doleman wrapped him up with his left hand and swatted the ball loose with his right hand.
▪ I wait until it fills itself and then I swat it, the blood splashing over my hand.
▪ It was a pleasant place, with high ceilings where fans swatted the air.
▪ Then he swatted himself across the nose with the 400, and walked out jauntily.
▪ Then my father would light a candle and we would all swat, stamp and squash as many as we could.
▪ They come along with something sharp and heavy and they swat you with it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
SWAT

SWAT team \SWAT" team`\, Swat team \Swat" team`\(sw[o^]t" t[=e]m), n. [acronym: Special Weapons and Training.] a special group of police trained to deal with unusually dangerous or violent situations, and having special weapons, such as rifles more powerful than those carried by regular police officers. They are employed, for example, in situations when hostages are being held, or heavily armed persons need to be captured. Called also SWAT or S.W.A.T..

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
swat

1796, American English and northern England dialect word, possibly an alteration of Middle English swap "to strike, smite" (see swap), ultimately of imitative origin. Related: Swatted; swatting. The noun is recorded from 1800.

Wiktionary
swat

n. A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. 2 (context slang crime English) to illegitimately elicit a SWAT assault

WordNet
swat
  1. n. a sharp blow

  2. [also: swatting, swatted]

swat
  1. v. hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies"

  2. [also: swatting, swatted]

Wikipedia
Swat

Swat or SWAT may refer to:

  • SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), a paramilitary unit of law-enforcement agencies
    • Swatting, a hoax intended to provoke a response from SWAT or other emergency personnel
Swat (princely state)

The Yusufzai State of Swat ( Pashto: ' د سوات يوسفزۍ واکمني') was a province of the Durrani Empire ruled by local rulers known as the Akhunds, then until 1947 a princely state of the British Indian Empire, which was dissolved in 1969, when the Akhwand acceded to Pakistan. The state lay to the north of the modern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (formerly called NWFP) and continued within its 1947 borders until 1969, when it was dissolved. The area it covered is now divided between the present-day districts of Swat, Buner and Shangla.

SWAT (film)
  1. redirect S.W.A.T. (film)
SWAT (Bangladesh)

SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) is an elite tactical unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Bangladesh. They operate under the Detective Branch of DMP. Eventually, the newly formed DMP unit SWAT is going to be expanded outwards forming one or more battalions. The force would remain as a part of the police force.

There are many members currently in the team and posted in Dhaka, but they can be called up for any emergency to anywhere.

The SWAT will go for action whenever existing law enforcing agencies even the elite force of Bangladesh Police Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) would fail to deal with the criminal groups or any criminal. The members of this team equipped with sophisticated weapons will act as 'quick response' and conduct 'risky' operations in Dhaka City and even outside if requires. This is a special wing of the Detective Branch, will work under direct control of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

The team will be more powerful than the elite police unit Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), especially since "This new force has been created especially to recover illegal arms and arrest the hardcore terrorists," said the DMP Commissioner Nayeem Ahmed.

SWAT (magazine)

SWAT (special weapons & tactics for the prepared American) is a monthly magazine dedicated to firearms, law enforcement and other tactical-related activities in the United States with a special focus on SWAT police officers.

The magazine primarily offers reviews on guns, ammunition, tactics, training, shooting gear; as well as self-defense and alerts on firearm rights. In addition to those departments, each issue contains featured articles and personality profiles of people in the tactical industry as well as press releases of new products.

SWAT staff writers include Massad Ayoob, Scott Reitz, Lewis Awerbuck, Leroy Thompson, Chuck Taylor, Claire Wolfe and Denny Hansen.

Usage examples of "swat".

His right hand swatted the fist out of the way like a kitten batting at a ball of yam.

If an orc or a goblin had gone into that cave, Bluster would have swatted it dead without a second thought.

Many thanks to Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, Barbara Cabot, SWAT officer Matt Cabot, Josh Horowitz, Michele Jaffe, Laura Langlie, Abby McAden, Ericka Markman, Ron Markman, David Walton, and Benjamin Egnatz.

Rawney guffawed and pretended to swat Missus Shaughnessy on the bum as he went into the kitchen.

I cycled along the gravel and dirt to the side of the road as heavily laden thirty wheelers thundered past, heading east into the Pennines, their wash sending me wheeling into the scrubland as if I had been swatted by a giant hand.

Harold Quaid of the National Security Agency and another agent, both dressed in SWAT gear.

She backed up a step, swatting at his sword with a hand whose essential broadness and redness was not disguised by the black shammy mitt covering it.

The few guildless marts who swept the floors and swatted dragonlice and cleaned the swarf were spat at, tripped, flicked with grease.

Just in case anyone in the draft room is feeling at ease with that fact, he rises and swats his chair across the room.

He seized a small branch and with a knife trimmed it until it made a neat walking stick, and as he went along, he aimlessly swatted tufts of grass and hanging twigs.

Chakdara holds the passage of the Swat River--a rapid, broad, and at most seasons of the year an unfordable torrent.

Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, SWAT officer Matt Cabot, Bill Contardi, Carrie Feron, Michele laffe, Laura Langlie, and David Walton.

Many thanks to Beth Ader, Jennifer Brown, Barbara Cabot, SWAT officer Matt Cabot, Josh Horowitz, Michele Jaffe, Laura Langlie, Abby McAden, Ericka Markman, Ron Markman, David Walton, and Benjamin Egnatz.

The strongholds of Buddhism from AD 700 became increasingly confined to certain parts of Bihar and Bengal, where the religion began, and to the north-west, particular the Swat Valley and Kashmir.

Could the Army simply put together a biohazard SWAT team and move in on the monkey house?