n.a sharp blow

v.hit swiftly with a violent blow

"Swatting the Subjectivist Bug"
Swatting at flies: Pakistan's use of counterinsurgency
Swatting police Paramilitarism: A comment on Kraska and Paulsen
Swatting Spiders: An Analysis of Spider Activity on the Internet
Portable device for swatting and collecting bugs
Swatting flies: modelling wound healing and inflammation in Drosophila.
Swatting Flies with Pile Drivers? Modeling Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
Stalking Beasts, but Swatting Flies: The Teaching of Critical Thinking
Root-cause analysis: swatting at mosquitoes versus draining the swamp.
Hunting tigers and swatting flies : Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign