slap with
phrasal verb
slapped with; slapping with; slaps with
US, informal
: to punish (someone) with (a fine, lawsuit, etc.)
The judge slapped the company with a fine for polluting the river.
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The European Union could be slapped with universal 25% tariffs without a deal.
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Jenni Reid,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Israel, which just lowered its tariffs on U.S. goods, was slapped with a 17% rate, while the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which are external territories of Australia and uninhabited, were slapped with 10% duties.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, which were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997 and represent Earth’s only volcanically active sub-Antarctic islands, were slapped with a 10 percent tariff.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
Since 2020, the Internet Archive has been slapped with costly copyright lawsuits over its digitization of books and music that are not in the public domain.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 23 Mar. 2025
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Jenni Reid,sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Israel, which just lowered its tariffs on U.S. goods, was slapped with a 17% rate, while the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which are external territories of Australia and uninhabited, were slapped with 10% duties.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, which were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997 and represent Earth’s only volcanically active sub-Antarctic islands, were slapped with a 10 percent tariff.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2025
Since 2020, the Internet Archive has been slapped with costly copyright lawsuits over its digitization of books and music that are not in the public domain.
—Emma Bowman, NPR, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Slap with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slap%20with. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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