Question of the Day #1051

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene targeted in swatting attempt on Christmas Day

From the headline of this article at USA Today.

  上記の文で、swattingの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "swatting" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

【名】 スワッティング◆悪質ないたずら（または嫌がらせ）。「凶悪犯人が立てこもっている」などと虚偽の通報をして、第三者（いたずらのターゲット）の家に特殊部隊(SWAT)が派遣されるように仕向けること。

   

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

the action of making a false report of a serious emergency so that a SWAT team (= a group of officers trained to deal with dangerous situations) will go to a person's home, by someone who wants to frighten, upset, or cause problems for that person

 

Examples

• Swatting has become an increasingly popular harassment tactic among online gamers.
• A "swatting" hoax led to police shooting dead a 28-year-old man.
• The man who allegedly placed the "swatting" call has been arrested.
• But it reached a new level of notoriety when 28-year-old Andrew Finch was inadvertently killed by police in his Kansas home, a victim of a swatting prank in December 2017.
• Swatting is not new – it was on the FBI’s radar as early as 2008 – but its origins are murky.

   

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