bitch-slap

verb

To slap someone powerfully in the face, meant to assert dominance or control over the receiver; to deliver a bitch slap to someone.

“For additional quotations, see bitch slap.”

Meanings

nounbitch-slap (plural bitch-slaps)

plural bitch-slaps · alternative bitch slap

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bitch slap.
verbbitch-slap (third-person singular simple present bitch-slaps, present participle bitch-slapping, simple past and past participle bitch-slapped)

present singular third person bitch-slaps · participle present bitch-slapping · participle past bitch-slapped · past bitch-slapped · alternative bitch slap

  1. slangtransitivevulgarTo slap someone powerfully in the face, meant to assert dominance or control over the receiver; to deliver a bitch slap to someone.

    For additional quotations, see bitch slap.

    3 more examples

    1993, John Shirley, "I Want to Get Married, Says the World’s Smallest Man", in New Noir, FC2, →ISBN, page 36, But he’d got the door open, yelling, “SHUT UP WOMAN I BITCH-SLAP YOU!” as he slammed it behind him with that soap opera timing.

    2001, Lisa Scottoline, Moment of Truth, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 171, “Nah. I’m just gonna bitch-slap my partner here. You wanna watch?”

    2007, John J. Nance, Orbit, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 104, “And they’re suddenly going to go across town and politically bitch-slap their boy? I don’t frigging think so.”

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APA

bitch-slap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitch-slap

MLA

“bitch-slap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitch-slap. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bitch-slap,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bitch-slap.

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