swatter
IPA: swˈɑtɝ
noun
- Something used to swat with; a flyswatter.
- Someone who swats.
verb
- (intransitive, UK, dialect) To spill water about.
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Examples of "swatter" in Sentences
- A fly swatter will kill a tsetse.
- He even uses a fly swatter as a bow for his fiddle.
- Stamped out by a fly swatter after attack Goggle Robo.
- Ladies and gentlemen, the "swatter" has left the building.
- Yet it also seems like a high tech swatter for an overhyped fly.
- Crumbine invented the device now commonly known as the fly swatter.
- Of course, for small children, a yardstick or a fly swatter might be used.
- "In our classroom, this isn't a fly swatter, it's a word swatter," he says.
- A flapper is a wildland firefighting tool also called a swatter or a beater.
- As for a fly moving out of the way of a fly swatter, that may just be instinct.
- Regular reader and commenter "swatter" raised an interesting point in comment #1 at this post:
- As someone standing on the doorstep looking for a good reason to enter the 'club', swatter is now gone.
- In the most recent post, 'swatter' wrote, ... how can impartial and independent people even be found and located?
- He seemed to be working many hours each day to cause that to happen, (maybe "swatter" is right and he's on the take).
- Commenter "swatter" at my original thread Stefan responded to accused me of saying this joint ballot measure should be approved "sight unseen."
- - The sentencing of a 19-year-old "swatter" to 11 years in prison has drawn renewed attention to caller-ID spoofing, which Matthew Weigman used to perpetrate his fake 911 calls and is at the heart of myriad scams.
- No, my fellow humans, killing flies as fast as we can swing the swatter is not sustainable or humane … even if our efforts seem to do nothing to reduce the numbers of flies buzzing just about anywhere and everywhere we happen to be.
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