See slap in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A quick, sharp blow, especially with the hand:
box2, buffet, bust, chop1, cuff, punch, smack1, smacker, spank, swat, whack. (Informal) clip1, spat. See attack, strike
verb
To hit with a quick, sharp blow of the hand:
box2, buffet, bust, cuff, punch, smack1, spank, swat, whack. (Informal) clip1, spat. See attack, strikeTo criticize harshly and devastatingly:
blister, drub, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify1, scathe, scorch, score, scourge, slash. (Informal) roast. (Slang) slam. Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. See praise
phrasal verb slap aroundTo be rough or brutal with:
knock about (or around), manhandle, rough (up). (Slang) mess up. See attack, strike
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