Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a special group of police trained to deal with unusually dangerous or violent situations, and having special weapons, such as rifles more powerful than those carried by regular police officers. They are employed, for example, in situations when hostages are being held, or heavily armed persons need to be captured. Called also
SWAT orS.W.A.T. .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situations
Examples
“I’ll try and get a Bureau SWAT team deployed from Knoxville by chopper, and then we’ll move on site fast as we can.”
“The Oldsmobile Delta 88 was a car so enormously long that Katie could have slunk down its tawny side with a whole SWAT team gesturing to each other behind her and still have been masterfully concealed.”
Simon & Schuster: Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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