Meaning of Swat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a valley and a district in NWFP administrative province of Pakistan
2. Acronym of special weapons and tactics, the area of expertise of police officers trained and equipped to neutralize armed or entrenched criminals.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
3. A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
4. a river in NWFP administrative province of Pakistan
5. A SWAT team.
   US, countable, uncountable
6. Alternative spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution.
   alt-of, alternative

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Examples

“After Trump won the 2024 election and rumors of a cost-cutting-and-efficiency SWAT team began to swirl, Dudek asked people he knew at big tech companies for introductions to potential DOGE members.”

“"This situation is out of control⟳. We need⟳ a SWAT," the policeman said.”

“These seemed to be talking very vehemently about something they called " swat." One of these young gentlemen who had black hair and a pimpled face⟳, seeing Peregrine, turned round and asked him "how far had he gone?" "Where" asked Peregrine, hastily. "In swat!" said the pimple-faced boy. "What's swat?" asked Peregrine Pultuney. "In your studies," said he of the pimples.”

“There is work⟳ enough—and too much—without this voluntary labor. The confinement during the bright sunny hours of the day is irksome and dispiriting; and it may be fairly questioned whether less would be learnt, if the study⟳ hours were reduced from nine to seven—especially as the greater part of these nine long hours is devoted to Mathematics. The cadets have⟳ a shorter word for it; they call⟳ it swat—a monosyllable which may puzzle the etimologists; but we believe⟳ it to be a corruption of the word sweat⟳, and as signifying that a knowledge of mathematics is only to be acquired with much toil—with much sweat⟳ of the brow—a sufficiently expressive, word it must be acknowledged.”

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