Usually means: False emergency report, police dispatched.
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  1. swatting: Merriam-Webster
  2. swatting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. swatting: The Word Spy
  4. swatting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. swatting: Vocabulary.com
  6. Swatting, swatting: Wordnik
  7. swatting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. swatting: Wiktionary
  9. swatting: Dictionary.com
  10. swatting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Swatting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. swatting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. swatting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. swatting: Encyclopedia

(Note: See swat as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (swatting)

noun:  A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
noun:  (US, slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.

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