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Besides wearing big glasses he was seventeen and still getting spanked with a belt by his mama!
Source: Black and Nerdy -
A common and rather peculiar feature of this trope is that the son or sometimes daughter who is threatened with the belt is often high school or even college-aged, but no one on the show seems to find it odd that they are still being spanked as if they were children.
Source: Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off -
Any issue of The Beano in days gone by would have included its child characters, caught out in mischief, being up-ended over an adult's lap and roundly spanked for their sin with hand, slipper, cane or belt.
Source: Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
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Spanked and Belt. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/belt/spanked
Belt & Spanked. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/belt/spanked>.
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