Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fly swatter.
- noun Baseball A hard-hitting batter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To splutter; flounce; move rapidly in any fluid, generally in an undulating way.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something used to
swat with. Short for aflyswatter . - noun Someone who
swats .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects
- verb splash and flutter about in or as if in water
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Examples
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He seemed to be working many hours each day to cause that to happen, (maybe "swatter" is right and he's on the take).
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No, my fellow humans, killing flies as fast as we can swing the swatter is not sustainable or humane … even if our efforts seem to do nothing to reduce the numbers of flies buzzing just about anywhere and everywhere we happen to be.
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As someone standing on the doorstep looking for a good reason to enter the 'club', swatter is now gone.
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"In our classroom, this isn't a fly swatter, it's a word swatter," he says.
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In the most recent post, 'swatter' wrote, ... how can impartial and independent people even be found and located?
Sound Politics: These legislators mustn't have a very high opinion of their voters 2007
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Ladies and gentlemen, the "swatter" has left the building.
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Commenter "swatter" at my original thread Stefan responded to accused me of saying this joint ballot measure should be approved "sight unseen."
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Regular reader and commenter "swatter" raised an interesting point in comment #1 at this post:
Sound Politics 2009
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Regular reader and commenter "swatter" raised an interesting point in comment #1 at this post:
Sound Politics 2009
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- The sentencing of a 19-year-old "swatter" to 11 years in prison has drawn renewed attention to caller-ID spoofing, which Matthew Weigman used to perpetrate his fake 911 calls and is at the heart of myriad scams.
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