Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police and emergency service response team to another person's address.

What does it mean when a streamer is swatted?

Swatting refers to a harassment technique most often perpetrated by members of the online gaming community. Swatting entails generating an emergency law enforcement response against a target victim under false pretenses.

What does the slang word SWAT mean?

n acronym for. Special Weapons and Tactics: a military-like unit within the US police force, trained to deal with specially dangerous situations, such as hostage-taking and riots.