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, JudgeThompson went off on that defendant. Dude got bench slapped.
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).
1. (v) A variation of the word bitchslap used by Kelly in the video "Shoes"
2. (v) What you do to one of your friends when he/she pisses you off
3. (v) What should be done to shetbags and douches
"I'm gonna betchslap you motherfucker"
"You should betchslap that whore for stealing my boyfriend"
"Kate totally betchslapped Natasha zomg!"
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).