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• n  a panic or extreme discomposure
  it threw her into a swivet

• Swivet Sir: In your issue of March 1 .
• The advertising world is in a swivet because familiar mass-market brand names such as Pampers and Marlboro are suddenly reeling from low-priced generic competitors.
• Last week, for the first time in years, a real emperor dropped in on Vienna, and the city was plunged into a swivet of what local newspapers called Kaiser-fieber (emperor fever).