Definitions for swats

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IPA: /swæts/

Swats is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in swats (asstw).

Definitions for swats

noun

1. sweet, new beer or ale.
2. a smart blow; slap; smack.
3. Baseball. a powerfully hit ball.
4. a former princely state in NW India: now a part of Pakistan.
5. Also, Swati. a Muslim inhabitant of Swat.
6. a special section of some law enforcement agencies trained and equipped to deal with especially dangerous or violent situations, as when hostages are being held (often used attributively):

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of sweat.

verb (used with object)

1. to hit; slap; smack.
2. Baseball. to hit (a ball) powerfully, usually for a long distance.

verb (used without object)

1. swot2 .

verb (used with or without object)

1. Usually, swat. (especially among online video gamers) to cause a SWAT team to be deployed on (an unsuspecting victim) by falsifying a threat, often as a punishment or retaliation:

Origin of swats

1500-10; compare Old English swatan beer (plural)

Examples for swats

The school staff would not allow us to film things like swats or students being sent to the “quiet room.”

Course they swats a dignified old boy three seats beyond me back of the ear; but that starts the floral offerings.

At length, however, came in the same sneering fellow I had marked on the wharf, calling loudly for swats.

There were three more Iraqi swats in the bedroom by now, and Matt told them to hold the prisoner still.

Six thousand swats were said to be in arms against the British.

When the relief party reached Chakdara, they had a severe fight with the swats, but they at length routed the tribesmen.

The swats, as the people of this region are called, appeared to be perfectly contented under British rule.

Sarah Kliff swats away David Brooks' suggestion that "Nobody knows how to reduce health care inflation."

The player with the swatter follows the runner and swats him until he is back in position.