The Collaborative International Dictionary
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..
Usage examples of "swat team".
He was about to try the handle then thought he'd better warn Bernard that it was him, and not one of the SWAT team.
But no one had been close to the front entrance since the armored SWAT team had staggered out.
We put a SWAT team in that glass room and they can watch it on TV.
He believed he had the best-trained SWAT team in the world, and he may have been right.
Captain Bo Haumann, head of the NYPD's Emergency Services Unit-the police's SWAT team.
He stood tall at the head of the front steps, ignoring the SWAT team's frantic signals to seek cover.
Reno's much-heralded rejection of the idea was apparently not communicated to the SWAT team.
Then why did the SWAT team incapacitate the only television cameraman at the house?