Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To strike or hit with a sharp blow.
- intransitive verb To strike or try to strike something with a sharp blow.
- noun A sharp blow or hit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A blow.
- noun A difficult task; a hard job.
- noun One who works hard; a dig; a grind.
- An old and dialectal (Scotch) preterit of
sweat . - To work hard; toil; dig; grind.
- An old and dialectal form of
sweat . - To strike; hit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a former state in Northwest India, now a part of Pakistan. It was ruled by a prince called a Wali.
- noun a sharp blow, especially one made with an instrument in the hand.
- noun (Baseball) a powerful hit, especially a home run.
- transitive verb to hit, especially with an instrument in the hand; to smack.
- transitive verb (Baseball) to hit (a baseball) powerfully, and for a long distance.
- imp. of
sweat .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
beat off , as insects; tobat ,strike , orhit . - noun A hard
stroke ,hit orblow , e.g., as part of aspanking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb hit swiftly with a violent blow
- noun a sharp blow
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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…
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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.
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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A quick swat is much different that repeated hitting on the bottom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Bulls 1907
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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.
Bulls 1907
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Then they heard a second and that's when they called the swat team to check it out.
News for WNCT 2009
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And the time between the hiss and the swat was a nano second.
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Jason Fitzpatrick: Kicking the crap out of an animal is one thing, giving it a swat is another.
Keep Your Cats From Destroying Your Furniture | Lifehacker Australia 2009
trivet commented on the word swat
Special Weapons And Tactics
February 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word swat
Not for me! I just like the word "swat" itself. :-)
March 8, 2007