slapgate

plural slapgates · alternative Slapgate · alternative SlapGate

1. informaluncountableusuallyAny of various controversies involving a well-known person slapping another person or thing.

   A video of a French Tennis player slapping his opponent in the face after losing a match is going viral on social media with many calling it the Will Smith effect in reference to the Hollywood actor's famous ‘slapgate’ at the Oscars recently.

   2022 April 6, “Will Smith effect: Tennis player slaps opponent after losing match”, in Kashmir Monitor, Sprinagar

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   Within the last two weeks, though, she has come under fire because of stories that she struck and pinched her employees in the treasurer's office.[…] If polls are to be believed, "Slapgate," as it has been dubbed, has done little to hurt Hutchison.

   1993 April 29, J. Michael Kennedy, “24 Hopefuls chase Texas Senate seat”, in Los Angeles Times, page 5

   But violence is one such invincible beast which at once storm the grapevine whenever it enters into the arena and going viral of Gauhar Khan's slapgate is the one of the conspicuous example of the same. So here we bring for you a list of slapgates which literally took buzz arena by storms...

   2014 December 3, Aks Darpan, “SLAP! Bollywood’s noisiest slapgates”, in DARPAN

1. Alternative letter-case form of slapgate (“Any of various controversies involving slapping.”).
2. informalneologismThe controversy around the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022, when actor Will Smith walked onstage and slapped comedian Chris Rock during Rock's presentation for Best Documentary Feature, in response to Rock making an insulting joke about Smith's wife.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:Slapgate.

1. Alternative letter-case form of slapgate (“Any of various controversies involving slapping.”).