Usually means: Insulting or shocking action, statement.
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  1. slap in the face: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. slap in the face: Wiktionary
  3. Slap in the Face (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. slap in the face: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (slap in the face)

noun:  (figuratively) Something unexpectedly said or done which causes shock or offense; an insult, rebuke, or rebuff.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slap, in, the, face. (This sense is a translation hub.)
verb:  To insult or offend unnecessarily.
verb:  To be or suddenly become bluntly obvious to.

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