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trout slap

trout slap verb: to strongly or humorously rebuke or humiliate.

Verb

trout slap (third-person singular simple present trout slaps, present participle trout slapping, simple past and past participle trout slapped)

  1. (Internet) To strongly or humorously rebuke or humiliate.
    • It might give it more weight when he would like to a) trout slap himself, b) trout slap any other living breathing creature deserving to be trout-slapped.1999 July 20, Jooooooky Joooky Junk, “Summer Of Sean”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet)
    • Anyone have a page with Dawn Newsgroup etiquette? Maybe it's time to start one so the rest of us don't get trout slapped for not knowing something that was discussed years ago.2002 May 21, DeannaD, “got your dawn bucks ready??? PT GLori”, in alt.collecting.topper-dawn (Usenet)

Noun

trout slap (plural trout slaps)

  1. (Internet) An act of trout slapping.
    • She has done nothing yet to show that she deserves a trout slap on the butt.1998 November 14, devi...@mindspring.com, “OBSSEers”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet)
    • The trout slap had given him the idea of how to go about getting what he wanted from Hannah Mayfield.1999, Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, Miranda Jarrett, Under The Boardwalk, →ISBN

Forms of trout slap

Verb
third-person singular presenttrout slaps
present participletrout slapping
past participletrout slapped
pasttrout slapped
alternative formtrout-slap
Noun
pluraltrout slaps

Origin of trout slap

From an Internet Relay Chat program, mIRC, which includes a /slap command that caused a message to appear that "<person A> slaps <person B> around a bit with a large trout".

Questions about trout slap

What does trout slap mean?
Trout slap means to strongly or humorously rebuke or humiliate.
What part of speech is trout slap?
Trout slap can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of trout slap?
The past tense of trout slap is trout slapped.

Words near trout slap in the dictionary

  1. trout lilies
  2. trout lily
  3. trout pout
  4. trout pouts
  5. Trout River
  6. trout slap
  7. trout slapped
  8. trout slapping
  9. trout slaps
  10. trout-perch
  11. trout-slap

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