slap

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It's not even a slap on the wrist, they don't notice!

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Quick take

a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of slap gathered in one view.

noun

a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

noun

the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

verb

hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand; "The impatient teacher slapped the student"; "a gunshot slapped him on the forehead"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for slap.

noun

a blow from a flat object (as an open hand)

noun

the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand

verb

hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand; "The impatient teacher slapped the student"; "a gunshot slapped him on the forehead"

adverb

directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"

Example sentences

It's not even a slap on the wrist, they don't notice!

We arrest kids for things that they used to just get a slap on the wrist/call to mom & dad for.

", slap your gut and tell it to listen because that's just the branding talking.

If you refuse, we'll slap you with a contempt order and throw you in federal prison.

If you tell anyone about this, we will slap you with a contempt order and throw you in federal prison.

It's a challenge; any designer can slap together a slick looking website.

Here, Zynga is providing all the good facts an employee needs to motivate people to want to slap them upside the head.

What a slap in the face of those who use commercially-permissive OSS libraries in their software...

The cost to the state to imprison such barely harmful acts is definitely not worth it. All she deserves is a slap on the wrist, a small fine and some probation time.

Sounds to me like they gave a slap on the wrist because he had done nothing illegal and therefore all they could do was try to scare him... and it worked.

Any and every action taken against these entities seems to either melt away entirely or result in a slap on the wrist.

Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company.

I recently bought two of Cal's books and wanna sometimes slap myself when I realize that if I had had this knowledge and the discipline to implement it 6 years ago, my life would be so much better.

I slap this on the page after I'm satisfied with the enhanced UX that design and client-side scripting provides: <div class="jsnotice"> We notice that you currently have Javascript disabled.