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trout

Verb
'to trout'

To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly. (Internet chat)

Infinitive
to trout

Third person singular
trouts

Simple past
trouted

Past participle
trouted

Present participle
trouting

Etymology:
Mid-80s BBS message boards, imitative of "thirty lashes with a wet noodle" only stinkier. Almost certainly from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), although the fish in that sketch was a halibut.

Source: Wiktionary

She got trouted for going off topic.

Everyone was trouting him for getting too silly.

by Carolyn C April 27, 2008

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