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  • noun Plural form of slapping.

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Examples

  • 'slappings' at the hands of Chelsea and Arsenal to grab a shock 1-0 win over Tottenham at White Hart Lane.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • And while there have been a few similar hand-slappings along the way, Google's never faced a widespread backlash against their influence or dominance from average consumers yet.

    Anil Dash 2009

  • And while there have been a few similar hand-slappings along the way, Google's never faced a widespread backlash against their influence or dominance from average consumers yet.

    Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash 2009

  • The 90-minute debut on June 29 manages to work in three face slappings, a hot-tub cat fight and sex on the beach.

    Dumb Fun: 'Models' Delivers Bad Goods 2008

  • Porter and saw that he was a merry faced wight, albeit he was by no means sober and was sore after his slappings.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Guido didn't get sent down, but did lose his license, get put on curfew and other assorted wrist slappings.

    Not stalkerish behaviour at all 2008

  • Really like the passion he has in defending the Wilsons and reading his ex-CIA analysis with Firedoglakes legal analysis is better than anything written in any of the conventional publications and his badass fascist-slappings.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: What Lies Beneath 2006

  • Just the first of the many “bitch-slappings” I promised you!

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: August 9, 2006 2006

  • There was much jesting, some slappings of shoulders, some good story-telling, and so the afternoon waned into evening, and they went away.

    The Financier 2004

  • Her mother might well have mistaken it for dirt, but Mademoiselle Pellenc, no stranger to slappings, must surely have seen it for what it was.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

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