Answer: SLAP
SLAP is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 308 times.
Referring Clues:
- Big shot in ice hockey
 - Put-down
 - Response to a pass?
 - Reply to a masher
 - Sharp rebuke
 - Response to an insult
 - Prelude to a duel
 - Sharp rebuff
 - Certain hockey shot
 - High-five sound
 - Post-delivery delivery
 - Not-so-subtle no
 - Invitation to duel, perhaps
 - Sound before "Thanks, I needed that!"
 - Pass rejection?
 - Hockey shot
 - Doctor's action to a newborn's bottom
 - Sign of freshness?
 - Duel preliminary
 - Smack
 - Response to an affront
 - Response to an insult, maybe
 - Indication of indignation
 - Rebuke
 - Midwife's act
 - High-five, e.g.
 - "__ me five!"
 - Hysteria curber
 - Retaliation for a pinch
 - Delivery after a delivery?
 - Response to a rude remark
 - Cuff
 - Part of a Three Stooges shtick
 - [How dare you!]
 - Unfortunate date ending
 - Part of a Three Stooges routine
 - Indicator of freshness?
 - Duel invitation, maybe
 - Respond to an insult, perhaps
 - Fresh guy's comeuppance
 - Response to a pick-up line, perhaps
 - Whomp
 - Cad's comeuppance
 - Moe Howard move
 - Place haphazardly, with "on"
 - Assault from Moe
 - Reaction to a fresh idea, perhaps
 - Light punishment
 - Masher's comeuppance, maybe
 - Hit with an open hand
 - Blow from Moe
 - Indignant reaction
 - High-five, for one
 - Rude awakening
 - Smacking blow
 - Reaction to a fresh thought, perhaps
 - Open-handed smack
 - Stinging response to an insult
 - React, as to an insult
 - High-five, for example
 - Stinging blow
 - Insult
 - Dig
 - Reaction to a fresh suggestion, perhaps
 - Strike with an open hand
 - Response to a come-on, maybe
 - Rough the passer?
 - Blow with a palm
 - Open-handed blow
 - Kind of shot
 - Response to a rude advance
 - Reaction to freshness
 - Reaction to freshness?
 - Response to impertinence, maybe
 - Hit sharply
 - Three Stooges blow
 - High-five, essentially
 - Strike with the palm
 - Critical comment
 - Sarcastic comment
 - Open-handed hit
 - Duel prelude, perhaps
 - High-five, for instance
 - Sharp insult
 - Reaction to rudeness
 - Strike
 - Strike with open hand
 - Strike with open palm
 - High-five, basically
 - Insult, so to speak
 - Bass player's technique
 - Rebuff
 - Midwife's action
 - "Fresh!" follow-up
 - Strike sharply
 - Hit with something flat
 - Retaliation for a pinch, perhaps
 - ''Fresh!'' follow-up
 - Face paste?
 - Response on the cheek to cheekiness, perhaps
 - Payback for a lewd remark, perhaps
 - NHL shot
 - Apply, in a way (with ''on'')
 - Palm whack
 - Duel preceder
 - Harsh welcome into the new world?
 - "Stick" or "dash" leader
 - Painful indication of indignation
 - Response to a masher
 - Midwife's action, perhaps
 - Stinging response to an insult?
 - Type of hockey shot
 - Hysteria curber, sometimes
 - Typical Three Stooges response
 - Happy start
 - Word with stick
 - It may cause indignation
 - Duel prelude
 - Duel provoker
 - It may bring one back to one's senses
 - Word with happy or dash
 - Word with stick or shot
 - Word with dash or happy
 - Blow for a bounder
 - Stick starter
 - Token punishment
 - Fresh response?
 - Hit with the palm
 - Open-handed assault
 - Smack in the face
 - Give a hand?
 - Response to freshness?
 - Sharp blow
 - Swat
 - Possible response to a grabby boyfriend
 - Hit with a palm
 - Challenge to a duel
 - Strong rebuke
 - High-five
 - What a cheeky one's cheek might get
 - Rebuke, in a way
 - Action to a newborn baby's bottom
 - Affix carelessly, with "on"
 - Reaction to an offensive line, perhaps
 - Give a high-five to
 - Apply, in a way (with "on")
 - "___ Shot" (1977 Paul Newman film)
 - ___ shot
 - Hit heartily (on the back)
 - Sharp smack
 - Suppress, with "down"
 - Strike smartly
 - Nominal punishment
 - Rebuff a masher
 - Hit Stooge-style
 - Openhanded hit
 - Sign of freshness
 - Fresh fellow's reward
 - Hit with the hand
 - Be openhanded with?
 - Openhand hit
 - Hit open-handedly
 - Hit a puck
 - Backhand, e.g.
 - Bass hit
 - Metaphorical slight
 - An affront
 - Painful rebuff
 - Hit, as with a fine
 - Sound of a mop hitting the floor
 - Open-handed strike
 - Blow to a wrist
 - Response to rudeness
 - Respond to rudeness
 - Reaction to an insult
 - Offended smack
 - Come-on comeuppance
 - Three Stooges assault
 - Makes like Moe,maybe
 - Make red-faced?
 - Mild censure, when on the wrist
 - "How dare you!" accompanier
 - Response to a slight
 - Reaction to a fresh comment, perhaps
 - Carelessly affix (with "on")
 - Alternative to a punch
 - [How dare you?!]
 - Bass technique
 - Wrist-directed reprimand
 - Wrist action?
 - It's an affront
 - Duel invitation, perhaps
 - [You cad!]
 - Blow used to rebuff a pass
 - Sound before "Snap out of it!"
 - Spank
 - Indication of freshness?
 - Hit
 - Clichéd response to an affront
 - Word with shot or dash
 - High-five impact
 - High-five gesture
 - Big shot in hockey
 - High-five, really
 - Word with "happy" or "shot"
 - Personal affront
 - Hand cuff
 - Rebuke from Moe
 - Mild punishment, when applied to the wrist
 - Hit openhanded
 - Whack
 - *Obstetrician's action on a newborn's behind
 - Cuff's kin
 - Fresh reaction
 - Wallop
 - Hit with open hand
 - Sound of a high-five
 - "The ___ Maxwell story"
 - Kind of hockey shot
 - Word with "stick" or "shot"
 - Throw (together)
 - Sound of sails
 - Type of shot
 - Light blow
 - Physical reprimand
 - High five sound
 - Hit, in a way
 - Dash or stick preceder
 - Subdue, with "down"
 - Sarcastic rebuke
 - "___ That Bass": Gershwin song
 - Indication of freshness
 - Painful rebuke
 - Waves-against-dock sound
 - Rebuke, so to speak
 - Quickly put (together)
 - Hit on the wrist
 - One way to play bass guitar
 - Many a hockey shot
 - Put (on) hastily
 - Openhanded
 - Gestural rebuff
 - Blow
 - Deliver a blow
 - Hard hockey shot
 - Response to an unwanted advance, maybe
 - Hard shot, in hockey
 - Assault like a Stooge
 - Certain shot in hockey
 - Shot on ice?
 - "Fresh!" accompanier
 - Open handed hit
 - Unkind comment
 - Give an unexpected hand
 - Strike, in a way
 - "How I Met Your Mother" bet
 - Indication of an offense
 - Word with jack or stick
 - Manual comeuppance
 - Response to an insult, perhaps
 - Hockey shot sound
 - Nonverbal response to an insult
 - ___ on the back
 - Apply hastily, with "on"
 - Hit, as a double bass
 - Hit with an open palm
 - Apply carelessly, with "on"
 - It might redden your face
 - Wordless "How dare you?!"
 - Strike with an open palm
 - Bit of Three Stooges comedy
 - Sharp hit, perhaps figurative
 - Like a ___ in the face
 - Insulted smack
 - Hand-to-hand sound
 - Hockey's ___ shot
 - Hit, as a bass
 - ___ on the wrist
 - Be really good
 - Single-handed rebuke
 - A ___ in the face
 - ___ with a fine
 - (How dare you!)
 - ___ bass (music technique)
 - Haphazardly assemble, with "together"
 - A ___ on the wrist
 - ___ bracelet ('90s fad)
 - Word with shot or happy
 - ___ bracelet (2000s fad)
 - Major affront
 - ___ bracelets ('90s fad)
 - Low-five sound
 - Thwack
 - Open-palmed hit
 - ___ Battles (Roblox game with gloves)
 - Old-style challenge
 - ___ bass (percussive technique in jazz)
 - Rebuke, maybe
 - Action in the card game Spit
 - Funky bass technique
 - *How rude!*
 - Expression of anger, maybe
 - Hit (with), as a fine
 - Duel invitation
 - Smack with a hand
 - Quickly throw (together)
 - Old-fashioned prelude to a duel
 - Apply haphazardly, with "on"
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 23, 2025
 - New York Times - July 08, 2025
 - USA Today - July 07, 2025
 - LA Times - June 10, 2025
 - New York Times - May 08, 2025
 - New York Times - April 06, 2025
 - New York Times - March 30, 2025
 - LA Times - February 11, 2025
 - New York Times - January 28, 2025
 - New York Times - November 14, 2024
 - LA Times - October 26, 2024
 - New York Times - October 22, 2024
 - LA Times - September 17, 2024
 - USA Today - September 11, 2024
 - LA Times - September 09, 2024
 - New York Times - September 09, 2024
 - USA Today - August 30, 2024
 - LA Times - August 24, 2024
 - USA Today - July 19, 2024
 - USA Today - June 13, 2024
 
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