Banch Slap

is a slap to the buttox, back, stomach, or face that has a mix of bar-ba-cue sauce and ranch dressing.

Dude, that guy just got banch slapped!

by riler January 17, 2010

bench slap

When a judge unleashes a verbal smackdown of someone in a courtroom setting. A bench slap can be directed at anyone in the courtroom for example: an attorney, a plaintiff, a defendant, etc.

Mane, Judge Thompson went off on that defendant. Dude got bench slapped.

by beccabecca October 29, 2020

bench slapped

this is when you have to go before a judge and he slaps a bench warrant on you.

wow, harold went to court today and he got bench slapped by the judge.

by lindy1943 April 6, 2010

benchslap

A benchslap is when a judge humiliates an attorney, insults another judge, or reverses a lower court in a particularly demeaning manner. A judicial bitch slap, if you will. This term was popularized by David Lat of AboveTheLaw.com (when he was blogging for UnderneathTheirRobes.com).

That was a classic Kozinski benchslap.

Judge Judy totally benchslapped that hooker that claimed to be a model, did you see that?

She might be a litigatrix, but that didn't help her dodge that brutal benchslap.

by Count Christoph von Stoph-Stopherson November 3, 2007

benchslap

In fantasy football, when you lose a match up because you benched a player who scored far more points than the one you played.

Damn, girl, you played Luck instead of Sanders this week? You got benchslapped.

by lyzurjane October 1, 2016

benchslapped

In fantasy football, when you lose a match up because you benched a player who scored far more points than the one you played.

Damn, girl, you played Luck instead of Sanders this week? You got benchslapped.

by lyzurjane September 19, 2017

benchslapped

To be the target of a judge's pointed rebuke.

"Man, I thought I got it hard, but the judge benchslapped the guy after me for just saying 'dude'."

First seen on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog "Federal Judge Slams Pennsylvania Lawyers"

by steegness October 17, 2007