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English
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
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, [email protected], “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.