"box someone's ears" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-box someone's ears.ogg [Australia] Forms: boxes someone's ears [present, singular, third-person], boxing someone's ears [participle, present], boxed someone's ears [participle, past], boxed someone's ears [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} box someone's ears (third-person singular simple present boxes someone's ears, present participle boxing someone's ears, simple past and past participle boxed someone's ears)
  1. (idiomatic) To slap someone on the side of the head, usually as an informal punishment. Tags: idiomatic Translations (slap on the side of the head): 打耳光 (dǎ ěrguāng) (Chinese Mandarin), vedellä pitkin korvia (Finnish), antaa korvapuusti (Finnish), dar um pé de ouvido [masculine] (Portuguese), надрать уши (nadratʹ uši) (Russian), давать оплеуху / затрещину / подзатыльник (davatʹ opleuxu / zatreščinu / podzatylʹnik) (Russian), ge någon en örfil (Swedish), ge någon en hurring (Swedish), bonclustio (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-box_someone's_ears-en-verb-d6dwdhL8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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