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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.
bench slap by beccabecca October 29, 2020
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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.
bench slapped 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.

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.
benchslap 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.
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"
benchslapped by steegness October 17, 2007
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"Booya! That freestyle was dutty!"
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Slop Grenade

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Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
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