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slapgate

slapgate proper noun: any of various controversies involving a well-known person slapping another person or thing.

Proper noun (1)

slapgate (usually uncountable, plural slapgates)

  1. (informal, usually) Any of various controversies involving a well-known person slapping another person or thing.
    • Within the last two weeks, though, she has come under fire because of stories that she struck and pinched her employees in the treasurer's office.[…] If polls are to be believed, "Slapgate," as it has been dubbed, has done little to hurt Hutchison.1993 April 29, J. Michael Kennedy, “24 Hopefuls chase Texas Senate seat”, in Los Angeles Times, page 5
    • But violence is one such invincible beast which at once storm the grapevine whenever it enters into the arena and going viral of Gauhar Khan's slapgate is the one of the conspicuous example of the same. So here we bring for you a list of slapgates which literally took buzz arena by storms...2014 December 3, Aks Darpan, “SLAP! Bollywood’s noisiest slapgates”, in DARPAN

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Slapgate

Slapgate

  1. Alternative letter-case form of slapgate (“Any of various controversies involving slapping.”).
  2. (informal, neologism) The controversy around the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022, when actor Will Smith walked onstage and slapped comedian Chris Rock during Rock's presentation for Best Documentary Feature, in response to Rock making an insulting joke about Smith's wife.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Slapgate.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: SlapGate

SlapGate

  1. Alternative letter-case form of slapgate (“Any of various controversies involving slapping.”).

Forms of slapgate

pluralslapgates
alternative formSlapgate
alternative formSlapGate

Origin of slapgate

From slap + -gate.

Questions about slapgate

What does slapgate mean?
Slapgate means any of various controversies involving a well-known person slapping another person or thing.
What part of speech is slapgate?
Slapgate is a proper noun.

Words near slapgate in the dictionary

  1. Slapewath
  2. slapfight
  3. slapfighting
  4. slapfights
  5. slapfought
  6. slapgate
  7. slapgates
  8. slaphappier
  9. slaphappiest
  10. slaphappiness
  11. slaphappy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slapgate (page history and authors); Slapgate (page history and authors); SlapGate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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