A reproach; a riposte; an abrupt or ungracious rejection (usually of an offer, request, or friendly gesture); a blunt refusal; a snub. Also as a mass…

Hostile confrontation; opposition. Also: an instance of this; a hostile encounter. rare after 17th cent.

A retaliatory slap, a return blow; (frequently figurative) an abrupt and ungracious rebuff; a sharp retort. Now rare.

In plural. In extended use: instructions, esp. instructions to leave, a dismissal; (Sport) a sending-off. Frequently in to get one's marching orders.

transferred. A reprimand, reproof; a spoken or written attack or censure; a side-hit. Esp. in phrases a slap in (or †on) the face, in the eye, on the…

An act or instance of rebuffing; a rebuff, a rejection.

A sounding blow delivered with the flat of the hand or something having a flat surface; a slap.

Short for brush-off n. at brush, v.2 5b. So brusheroo.

to brush off: figurative, to rebuff, dismiss (a person, etc.). So brush-off n. a rebuff, dismissal. Originally U.S.

A sounding blow delivered with the flat of the hand or something having a flat surface; a slap.