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trout slap

verb, noun — 2 senses

trout slap

verb

Etymology 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".

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):
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  • There's no grade inflation — your GPA will be trout slapped until it hides under the table at a respectable 2.7.2005, Moana Evans, Harvey Mudd College College Prowler Off the Record, →ISBN, page 132:

trout slap

noun

Etymology 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".

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:
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  • You need a good trout slap mister :)2001 February 2, Dan Fournier, “Why do I need 'coolbits'”, in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (Usenet):
  • Stocks enjoyed a fist pound ahead of the long weekend, on hopes that giving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a trout slap in the mortgage market would throw TWO leprechauns at the credit crunch that sucker punched Bear Stearns.2008, Business Review Weekly: BRW - Volume 30, Issues 9-12, page 139:

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