slap with

phrasal 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.

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Sky and the executive producer of Britannia have been slapped with a £6.5M ($8.5M) lawsuit in the UK by a writer who claims the fantasy Roman Empire series was stolen. —

Jake Kanter, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024 Directed by Eli Roth, the video game adaptation — which cost north of $110 million to produce — was roundly panned by critics; audiences felt the same in slapping with a D+ cinemascore. —

Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2024 Rose was slapped with another IRS lien in 2012 for the tax years 2009 and 2010, though that one was much smaller. —

Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s legal issues have continued throughout the years, as he was slapped with prescription drug fraud charges on two occasions, first in April and again in May. —

Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for slap with