Related Clues:

• Unkind comment
• Duel prelude
• Doctor's action to a newborn's bottom
• Word with stick or shot
• Scolding
• Sign of freshness?
• Dash preceder
• Part of a Three Stooges routine
• Good telling-off
• Response to a pickup line, perhaps
• Duel preliminary
• Rebuke
• Smack in the face
• Response to an affront
• Token punishment