swat

Related to swat: SWOT analysis

swat

slang To contact emergency services, such as the police, with a fraudulent report of an emergency so that they respond in large numbers to a certain location, often done as a prank. The name refers to SWAT ("Special Weapons and Tactics") teams, specialized police units that respond to especially dangerous situations. Kids keep swatting celebrities' houses, and police are coming down hard when they catch the person who did it.

swatting

slang The act of contacting emergency services, such as the police, with a fraudulent report of an emergency so that they respond in large numbers to a certain location, often done as a prank. The name refers to SWAT ("Special Weapons and Tactics") teams, specialized police units that respond to especially dangerous situations. Swatting is much more dangerous than a simple prank—it diverts first responders who may be needed elsewhere.
See also: swat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • swatting
  • urge
  • urge (one) along
  • urge along
  • as of
  • if anything should happen
  • blues and twos
  • switch (someone or something) through (to someone or something)
  • switch through
  • bug-out bag
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She said that festival of other fruits of Swat would be held in the coming years.
The meeting was also told that the motorway will also promote agriculture economy in Swat while the farmers will also get access to market.
Below is the elaboration of different arguments of this study, based on the analysis of data collected from Swat.
The bees are kept in Swat commonly, and the honey is famous all over the country, the Swat River serves as a permanent fishery throughout the year and trout fish are reared in farms.
"Oh people of Swat, do not make the same mistake again, do not elect a leader who does not care for you," Nawaz said during his speech.
According to the census held this year, the population of Swat district is more than 2.3 million - in an area of about 5,337 square kilometres.
The consideration will be settled by an initial cash payment of GBP 2.4m (USD 3.15m) and a deferred consideration payment of up to GBP 3.0m payable in September 2018 in cash subject to SWAT achieving challenging profit targets over the two financial years ending 30 June 2018.
Along with the ancient heritage Swat is also famous for its natural beauty and weather.
In 2009, Cardon contacted the Pierce County, Washington SWAT team and volunteered his services.
Commenting on the effectiveness of the offensive, Mukhtar Yousafzai, head of the independent Swat qaumi jirga, said: "In Swat, it was the state agencies that groomed, promoted and protected the terrorists.
PESHAWAR: Pakistan s army Wednesday said it had killed a top aide of fugitive Swat Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah, as they continued their hunt for militant chieftains in the northwest valley.
It ranges from beginnings of peace in violence-wrecked Swat to ongoing negotiations between the principle interlocutors, the ANP government and the army, and the TNSM Chief Sufi Muhammad; from the emergence of common position between the governmentAEs principal interlocutor Sufi Muhammad and the governmentAEs principle antagonist Maulvi Fazlullah of Swat Tehreek-i-Taleban Pakistan (TTP) to points of debate or even disagreements between them.
A senior member of the ruling Awami National Party in Northwest Frontier Province said Wednesday a peace agreement with local Taliban militants in the Swat valley is virtually dead because the Taliban have failed to honor the agreement.
ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2006, a SWAT team stormed the rural Virginia home of A.J.