[Ads-l] Woty = swatting

[Nancy Friedman]

This sense of “swatting” has been circulating since about 2007. I wrote
about it in 2013, when it appeared frequently in news reports.
https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2013/04/word-of-the-week-swatting.html

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On Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 9:28 AM Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Swatting is to call a fake emergency to responders on someone's residence
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