swat
IPA: swˈɑt
Root Word: SWAT
noun
- (chiefly US, law enforcement) A SWAT team
- A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
- a valley and a district in NWFP administrative province of Pakistan
- a river in NWFP administrative province of Pakistan
- (chiefly US, law enforcement) Acronym of special weapons and tactics. The area of expertise of police officers trained and equipped to neutralize armed or entrenched criminals.
- Alternative spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution. [(slang, Britain) One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.]
verb
- (transitive) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.
- (US, slang, transitive) To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone).
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Examples of "swat" in Sentences
- I'll send a swat team to get it.
- I checked with the swat commander,
- It would be nice to swat this gnat.
- Go ahead and swat with a bigger stick.
- Swat, you're not exactly a neutral party.
- It is located on the bank of the river Swat.
- There was a complete peace and order in Swat.
- Swat is known as switzerland of the sub continent.
- And the time between the hiss and the swat was a nano second.
- Swat is a dependable user who will make good use of the tools.
- A quick swat is much different that repeated hitting on the bottom.
- The fugitive speeds towards the SWAT officers but stops when the open fire.
- Then they heard a second and that's when they called the swat team to check it out.
- Jason Fitzpatrick: Kicking the crap out of an animal is one thing, giving it a swat is another.
- I stumbled over the fallen coon who had pivoted me, ducked a swat from a club, dived between a bull's legs, and was free.
- Oklahoma's Jason Detrick and Hollis Price find out when Greg Newton, Jared Jeffries and Newton again swat three consecutive shots in one breathless stretch late in the first half.
- Making physical contact doesn't mean you are torturing them, it doesn't mean you are hitting them as hard as I would hit you, and it doesn't do them any harm as a swat is just like squirting them with water except they know it's you doing it.
- I don’t think they give a rat’s ass over Iran’s nuclear ambitions but they care DEARLY about anything that could cause finacial pain ie a oil embargo OR a war-induced one and they will not take kindly to any nation that would cause this. we may be able to swat Iran cuz they are small and ‘weak’, but mark my works, someone is going to ’swat’ us right back…