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Definition 2024
swatting
swatting
English
Verb
swatting
- present participle of swat
Noun
swatting (plural swattings)
- A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
- Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- This […] evoked a new disorder — a tendency to sudden, tic-like jabbings and swattings in the air, as if she were fending off flies or mosquitoes.
- Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- (slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.