Related Clues:

• Not-so-subtle no
• Kind of shot
• Hockey shot
• Unkind comment
• Duel prelude
• Doctor's action to a newborn's bottom
• Word with stick or shot
• Sign of freshness?
• Dash preceder
• Grippe
• Part of a Three Stooges routine
• Response to a pickup line, perhaps
• Duel preliminary
• Rebuke
• Smack in the face