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swattings

swattings is the plural of swatting.

Meaning of swatting

Noun

swatting (plural swattings)

  1. A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
    • 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.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
  2. (US, slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.
    • Swatting started in the combative world of online gaming. It was a way to terrorize someone more famous, get even with a rival or retaliate against someone with different political views.2020 January 23, Sheera Frenkel, “People Are Calling SWAT Teams to Tech Executives’ Homes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about swattings

What is swattings the plural of?
Swattings is the plural of swatting.

Words near swattings in the dictionary

  1. swatter
  2. swattered
  3. swattering
  4. swatters
  5. swatting
  6. swattings
  7. swattle
  8. swattled
  9. swattles
  10. swattling
  11. Swatzell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swattings (page history and authors); swatting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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