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"etymology_text": "From an Internet Relay Chat program, mIRC, which includes a /slap command that caused a message to appear that \"<person A> slaps <person B> around a bit with a large trout\".",
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"ref": "1999 July 20, Jooooooky Joooky Junk, “Summer Of Sean”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet)",
"text": "It might give it more weight when he would like to a) trout slap himself, b) trout slap any other living breathing creature deserving to be trout-slapped.",
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"ref": "2002 May 21, DeannaD, “got your dawn bucks ready??? PT GLori”, in alt.collecting.topper-dawn (Usenet)",
"text": "Anyone have a page with Dawn Newsgroup etiquette? Maybe it's time to start one so the rest of us don't get trout slapped for not knowing something that was discussed years ago.",
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"ref": "2005, Moana Evans, Harvey Mudd College College Prowler Off the Record, page 132",
"text": "There's no grade inflation — your GPA will be trout slapped until it hides under the table at a respectable 2.7.",
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"ref": "1998 November 14, devi...@mindspring.com, “OBSSEers”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet)",
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"ref": "1999, Linda Howard, Geralyn Dawson, Miranda Jarrett, Under The Boardwalk",
"text": "The trout slap had given him the idea of how to go about getting what he wanted from Hannah Mayfield.",
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"ref": "2001 February 2, Dan Fournier, “Why do I need 'coolbits'”, in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (Usenet)",
"text": "You need a good trout slap mister :)",
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"ref": "2008, Business Review Weekly: BRW - Volume 30, Issues 9-12, page 139",
"text": "Stocks enjoyed a fist pound ahead of the long weekend, on hopes that giving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a trout slap in the mortgage market would throw TWO leprechauns at the credit crunch that sucker punched Bear Stearns.",
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"text": "There's no grade inflation — your GPA will be trout slapped until it hides under the table at a respectable 2.7.",
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"text": "She has done nothing yet to show that she deserves a trout slap on the butt.",
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"ref": "2001 February 2, Dan Fournier, “Why do I need 'coolbits'”, in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (Usenet)",
"text": "You need a good trout slap mister :)",
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},
{
"ref": "2008, Business Review Weekly: BRW - Volume 30, Issues 9-12, page 139",
"text": "Stocks enjoyed a fist pound ahead of the long weekend, on hopes that giving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac a trout slap in the mortgage market would throw TWO leprechauns at the credit crunch that sucker punched Bear Stearns.",
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