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

He was instead slapped with four life sentences plus ten years. — Forbestv, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

The two of them party hard enough and often enough that local police officer Montgomery (Missi Pyle) knows them by name; when some particularly irresponsible carousing crosses a line, however, they’re slapped with a community service sentence. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 July 2026

On Thursday, Google became the third tech giant slapped with massive Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines, ordered to pay more than $1 billion for two serious violations that the European Commission (EC) found went unchecked for way too long. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026

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