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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One of the boys, just 15, was taken into custody at his Brooklyn high school and slapped with charges of reckless endangerment, possession of burglary tools, criminal mischief and criminal trespass. —

Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025 How many were near Altadena? Big Ass Fans were slapped with fat fines for false claims about their clean air products. —

Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2025 Then, companies could make a case to administration officials for why their products should be excluded from a long list of goods set to be slapped with tariffs. —

Courtenay Brown, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025 Chua thinks that while no country is free from the risk of getting slapped with a blanket 10% tariff by the U.S., China will remain the Trump administration’s immediate focus. —

Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Asia, 26 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for slap with