shellacking

shellacking
Synonyms and related words:
beating, calcimining, clobbering, coating, covering, crushing defeat, debacle, decisive defeat, defeasance, drubbing, enameling, fresco, gilding, glazing, glossing, japanning, licking, no contest, overthrow, overwhelming defeat, painting, pasting, priming, rout, smashing defeat, smearing, staining, stippling, total defeat, trouncing, undercoating, utter defeat, vanquishment, varnishing, whipping, whitewash, whitewashing, whopping

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  • shellacking — [shə lak′iŋ] n. Slang ☆ 1. a whipping; flogging; beating ☆ 2. a thorough defeat …   English World dictionary

  • shellacking — n. beating (colloq.) (AE) 1) to give smb. a shellacking 2) to get, take a shellacking * * * [ʃə lækɪŋ] take a shellacking [ beating ] (colloq.) (AE) to give smb. a shellacking to get …   Combinatory dictionary

  • shellacking — shəˈlakiŋ noun ( s) Etymology: from gerund of shellac (II) : a decisive or ignominious defeat : beating, drubbing a shellacking he received that made him hors de combat after nine rounds Nat Fleischer …   Useful english dictionary

  • shellacking — /sheuh lak ing/, n. Slang. 1. an utter defeat: a shellacking their team will remember. 2. a sound thrashing: His father gave him a shellacking for stealing the book. [1880 85; SHELLAC + ING1] * * * …   Universalium

  • shellacking — n. a beating. □ We gave them a shellacking they’ll never forget. □ Our team took a real shellacking …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • shellacking — noun A heavy defeat, drubbing, or beating; used particularly in sports and political contexts. The News baseball team defeated the Press Guardian outfit, 8 to 4, in a recent game, which squares accounts for the shellacking the News received a… …   Wiktionary

  • shellacking — To beat by a large margin. to thrash Collingwood gave Carlton a shellacking …   Dictionary of american slang

  • shellacking — To beat by a large margin. to thrash Collingwood gave Carlton a shellacking …   Dictionary of american slang

  • shellacking — noun (singular) AmE informal a situation in which you are severely defeated or criticized: The Chargers got a shellacking in the Superbowl …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • shellacking — noun Date: 1931 a decisive defeat ; drubbing …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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