1) An alliterative expression describing a physically stimulating hand gesture used, typically, by parents or
guardians to punish children by striking usually the buttocks with an open palm. (Now outlawed in several jurisdictions.)
2) What painfaced, upright husbands of painfaced, uptight wives dream of doing to sassy, gum-chewing, headphone-wearing young girls (or boys) whose behavior or appearance stirs feelings of envy at having been
prohibited the freedoms such youngsters enjoy, such feelings in turn stirring sexual responses that can only be fully released by inflicting on these
objects of desire the same form of interdicting assault the aroused party suffered at the same early stage of development.
Patient: Doctor, I suffered awfully at the hands of my father - almost daily spankings.
Doctor: Hmm, I see, Mr
Carruthers. Tell me, what is the first thing you think when I show you the cover of this Rihanna CD, "Music of the Sun"?
Patient (hands
clenched, eyes flashing): Doctor, I want to
spank her, yes,
SPANK her!