The word 'slapping' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of making a slapping sound or gesture. For example, "She smacked her hand on the table in frustration, creating a loud slapping sound."
The university should immediately drop this injunction and enter into a genuine dialogue with students rather than slapping an injunction across campus for a full year without even consulting their students' union".
There are four of them: the pistol-toting medic with the silver hair, the Goth techy idly cradling an energy pistol, the tiny woman in big boots slapping a plank of wood in her fist, and the sharp-talking shotgunner.
The first conclusion is that the Justice Department, largely led by US Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara, is finally slapping Wall Street for the things that went wrong five years ago.
His increasingly erratic behaviour has rarely been out of the gossip columns – from walking out of press conferences to getting arrested for slapping fellow theatregoers during a Broadway performance of Cabaret.
FarmVille : Harvest Swap (Free + IAP) A lot of people will turn their noses up at the sight of social games firm Zynga slapping its FarmVille brand onto a Candy Crush-style match-three puzzle game.
Shaw has similar strength, both physical and mental, and even a similar kicking motion, whereby he seems to pass the ball crisply with his left foot like an ice hockey player slapping a puck.
At 8am a klaxon sounds and, along with cheers, whoops and much back-slapping, we start our long trek to the stones.
By the time of his death, King Hussein's plans were foundering.In this section The hungry are always with us Abdullah's little revolution in Jordan Blinking sphinx Probing the past Wrist-slapping the corrupt ReprintsIn response, King Abdullah's boldest step was to crack down on Hamas.
Ghana has made the most African progress: 20 years ago, two-thirds of Ghanaians suffered hunger; now the figure is about one-tenth.In this section The hungry are always with us Abdullah's little revolution in Jordan Blinking sphinx Probing the past Wrist-slapping the corrupt ReprintsThe FAO's research shows areas of Latin America and the Caribbean doing poorly.
For all the usual pieties its development ministers offer up, many anti-corruption campaigners remember the very public slapping-down of the Serious Fraud Office on national-security grounds by Tony Blair in 2006.
But few officials could identify many Crimean exports to the EU.In the bureaucratic jargon of Brussels, the annexation of Crimea merits only "Stage 2" sanctions: visa bans, asset freezes and political wrist-slapping.
