trout slap

English

Alternative forms

trout-slap

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".

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

(Internet slang) To strongly or humorously rebuke or humiliate.
- 1999 July 20, Jooooooky Joooky Junk, “Summer Of Sean”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
  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.
- 2002 May 21, DeannaD, “got your dawn bucks ready??? PT GLori”, in alt.collecting.topper-dawn (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.
- 2005, Moana Evans, Harvey Mudd College College Prowler Off the Record, →ISBN, page 132:
  There's no grade inflation — your GPA will be trout slapped until it hides under the table at a respectable 2.7.

Noun

trout slap (plural trout slaps)

(Internet slang) An act of trout slapping.
- 1998 November 14, devi...@mindspring.com, “OBSSEers”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):
  She has done nothing yet to show that she deserves a trout slap on the butt.
- 1999, Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, Miranda Jarrett, Under The Boardwalk, →ISBN:
  The trout slap had given him the idea of how to go about getting what he wanted from Hannah Mayfield.
- 2001 February 2, Dan Fournier, “Why do I need 'coolbits'”, in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (Usenet):
  You need a good trout slap mister :)
- 2008, Business Review Weekly: BRW - Volume 30, Issues 9-12, page 139:
  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.