Answer to "Slap in the face" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word SNUB which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2018.

Slap in the face crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SNUB	25 %	4
REBUFF	25 %	6
AFFRONT	25 %	7
INSULT	25 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Slap in the face

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• slap on the wrist
• butter face
• lip flap
• gut punch
• clenched fist
• police beat
• fake book
• shell shock
• the devil
• raised fist
• piece of cake
• deep cut

Crossword Answer definitions

SNUB noun

1. A deliberate affront or slight.
2. A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
3. A knot; a protuberance; a snag.

SNUB verb

1. To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
2. To turn down; to dismiss.
3. To check; to reprimand.
4. To stub out (a cigarette etc).
5. To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
6. To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

SNUB adjective

1. Conspicuously short.
2. Of the nose: flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
3. (of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.

SNUB verb

1. To sob with convulsions.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SNUB

• Rebuff
• Leave off the nominations
• Oscar ___ (the Academy's choice not to nominate a critically acclaimed work)
• Turn one's nose up
• Un-invite, maybe
• Slight
• Social insult
• Ignore contemptuously
• Affront
• High-hat

More clues leading to the result REBUFF

• Blunt refusal
• Slap in the face
• Give the cold shoulder
• Blunt turndown
• Snub
• Blunt rejection
• Abrupt rejection
• Abrupt snub
• Snub.
• Say no to

More clues leading to the result AFFRONT

• Deliberate insult
• Act of disrespect
• Indignity
• Insult
• Pique
• Slap in the face
• Offend by open disrespect.
• Slight.
• Intentional insult.
• Insult.

More clues leading to the result INSULT

• Affront
• "Yo Mama" joke line, e.g.
• It may be added to injury
• Rickles riposte
• Dig
• Dis
• Offensive remark
• Slight
• Don Rickles specialty
• Refusal of hospitality, often