slap with

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.

Examples of slap with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Videos of him playing racked up millions of views across YouTube and he was slapped with the ‘wonderkid’ label. — Jay Harris, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Perhaps not for the fainthearted, this involves being gently slapped with oak branches in the sauna before dipping into a bracing cold plunge (rinse and repeat). — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2026

So the iPhones and wearables that were just slapped with a price rise in Japan are the same ones spared three weeks ago, just for a completely different reason. — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

The nonpayment suit filed by Um and Shabazi is not the first the gallery has been slapped with. — News Desk, Artforum, 21 July 2026