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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Apple and Goldman Sachs were slapped with an $89 million fine. —

Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 24 Oct. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for slap with