"slap someone around" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: slaps someone around [present, singular, third-person], slapping someone around [participle, present], slapped someone around [participle, past], slapped someone around [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} slap someone around (third-person singular simple present slaps someone around, present participle slapping someone around, simple past and past participle slapped someone around)
  1. (idiomatic) To be brutal towards someone, especially physically. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Violence Coordinate_terms: slap someone's wrist
    Sense id: en-slap_someone_around-en-verb-cYGcol02 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (around)

Inflected forms

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